TOGETHER VISION FROM CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ARCHITECTURE

TOGETHER

VISIONS FROM CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ARCHITECTURE

2 ASA STUDIO TOMÀ BERLANDA, NEREA AMOROS BELORDUY

8 NLÉ KUNLÉ ADEYEMI

14 NOERO ARCHITECTS JO NOERO

20 WOLFF ARCHITECTS HEINRICH WOLFF

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Early Care & Childhood Development Centres for Plan Rwanda 2011 - 2014

Gihembe

Gihembe

ASA studio

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Nemba

ASA studio

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Early Childhood Development & Family Centres for Unicef Rwanda 2013 - 2014

Nyamasheke

Nyamagabe

ASA studio

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Nyamagabe

ASA studio

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Early Care & Childhood Development Centres for Plan Rwanda. Nyamasheke

Early Childhood Development & Family Centres for Unicef Rwanda. Nemba

ASA studio

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ASA studio

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Makoko Floating School Lagos, Nigeria 2011 - 2013

NLÉ

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NLÉ

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Makoko Floating School Lagos, Nigeria 2011 - 2013

NLÉ

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Increase in rainfall

Increase in sea level

MAKOKO TECHNOLOGY

NLÉ

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FLOTATION TECHNOLOGY

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NEW SOLUTION

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Mabushi residential development Abuja, Nigeria 2012

NLÉ

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TYPICAL HOUSING IN ABUJA

NLÉ

MABUSHI RESIDENTIAL

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Red Location Cultural Precint Port Elizabeth, South Africa 1995 - ongoing

Noero Architects

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Noero Architects

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St Cyprian's School Cape Town, South Africa 2005 - ongoing

Noero Architects

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Noero Architects

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Productive Re-public 2013

Noero Architects

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Noero Architects

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Inkwenkwezi Secondary School, Du Noon, Cape Town, South Africa 2004 - 2006

Wolff Architects

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Usasazo Secondary School, Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa 2000 - 2003

Wolff Architects

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Vredenburg Hospital Vredenburg, South Africa, 2006 - ongoing

Wolff Architects

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Workshop 17 Cape Town, South Africa 2013 - 2014

Wolff Architects

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Workshop 17 Cape Town, South Africa 2013 - 2014

Wolff Architects

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Wolff Architects

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ASA studio

NLÉ

Nerea Amorós Elorduy and Tomà Berlanda founded Active Social Architecture in September 2012 in Kigali, with the objective of using architecture to empower communities and improve the building scenario in Rwanda.

Nerea Amorós Elorduy is a Spanish architect. She holds a Master in International Cooperation and Sustainable Emergency Architecture from UIC (2011), and a Diploma in architecture from ETSA in Barcelona (2009). She has worked for different architecture firms, before joining the Africa Nos Mira NGO and UNICEF Rwanda. Since 2011 she is Assistant Lecturer in architecture at the Kigali Institute of Science Tomà Berlanda is an Italian architect. He has lectured and published extensively, and held teaching positions in various institutions, including EPF Lausanne, Accademia di Mendrisio, Syracuse University, Kigali Institute of Science and Technology and Cornell University. He was among the first graduates from the Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio, Swtizerland (2002) and went on to obtain a Ph.D. in architecture and building design from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy (2009).

Founded in 2010, NLÉ is quickly fulfilling its mission to shape the physical, human, cultural end economic architectures of developing cities.

NLÉ is led by Kunlé Adeyemi, an architect, designer and urbanist.

Born and raised in Nigeria, Adeyemi studied architecture at the University of Lagos, before joining OMA in 2002. At OMA, working closely with founder Rem Koolhaas for nearly a decade, he led the design, development and execution of numerous projects in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

All of Kunlé Adeyemi’s experience, knowledge and background underpin his new architectural, creative design, and urbanism practice for Africa and other developing regions.

The overarching aim of the practice is to bridge critical gaps in infrastructure and urban development by creating coherent networks and global exchanges that work for people. The scope of the practice is not limited to architecture. He has also designed furniture, among many other things, and explores all social and cultural possibilities that contribute to urbanism.

Biography

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Noero Architects

Wolff Architects

Jo Noero formed Noero Architects in Johannesburg in 1984. It was restyled as Noero Wolff Architects from 1999 to May 2012, when it became Noero Architects once more.

The practice has offices in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth.

Noero has been the recipient of local and international awards, including the Lubetkin Prize from the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2006, the Ralph Erskine Prize from the Nordic Association of Architects in 1993, and the Gold Medal for Architecture from the South African Institute of Architects in 2010.

Noero’s work has been exhibited at MoMA in New York, the Venice Biennale, the Sao Paolo Biennale, the Singapore Biennale and the National Gallery of Art in Cape Town.

Noero has designed and built over 200 projects and has combined a professional career with an academic one, lecturing both locally and internationally.

Noero was the Director of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Cape Town from 2000 to 2005.

Wolff is a design studio concerned with developing an architectural practice of consequence through the mediums of design, advocacy, research and documentation. The Wolff team, made up of a group of highly skilled, committed and engaged individuals, is led by husband and wife couple Ilze & Heinrich Wolff.

Prior to establishing Wolff with Ilze, Heinrich led Noero Wolff Architects, with Jo Noero from 1998 – 2012, the firm responsible for numerous award winning projects such as the Red Location Museum of Struggle and the Inkwenkwezi and Usasazo secondary schools. In 2007 Heinrich won the prestigious Daimler Chrysler Award for Architecture, in 2010 he was the first South African architect to be invited to participate in the main exhibition of the Venice Biennale and in 2011 he was elected as the Designer of the Future by the Wouter Mikmak Foundation.

Ilze, co-founded OHA in 2007, a practice responsible for researching and documenting SA architecture through the popular Open House tours which she continues to direct parallel to Wolff. Ilze, an architect and scholar within the fields of heritage, architectural history and public culture, collaborated with Noero Wolff in 2007 to design House Wolff which received an SA National award of merit in 2010.

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ASA studio Early Care & Childhood Development Centres Project: Nerea Amoros Elorduy and Tomà Berlanda (ASA studio) Design team: ASA studio led

by Nerea Amoros Elorduy with Francesco Stassi, Jacques Murama Site supervision team: Nerea Amoros Elorduy with Francesco Stassi, Tomà Berlanda Structural engineering: Nyundo Kayihura Technical equipment: Great Lakes Energy Typology: Early Childhood Development Centre Client: Plan Rwanda Contractor: Betex Site engineers: Eulade, Felicien, Elie Ndayizeye Locations: Biharagu; Kampeka; Nyabyondo; Tunda; Gihembe; Ngeruka; Nemba; Nkanga, Bugesera district, Rwanda Built Area: 290 square metres Timeframe: 2011-12 (Project); 2012 (Construction first prototype); 2013 (Project revision) 2013-2014 (Construction)

Site supervision team: Nerea Amoros Elorduy and Tomà Berlanda with Michelle Stadelman, Francesco Stassi, Alice Tasca Structural engineering: Nyundo Kayihura Typology: Early Childhood Development & Family Centre Client: UNICEF Rwanda Donors: DFID Implementing Partners: Imbuto Foundation, Plan Rwanda Site engineers: Napoleon Mbarushimana, Elie Ndayizeye, David Nsabimana, David Nsengiyumva, Jean de Dieu Kamari, Maurice Munyandamutsa, Louis Kambarage Contractors: Betex, Local sectors Locations: Cymbazi, Rwamagana district; Sangaza, Ngoma district; Rugali, Nyamasheke district; Myove, Gicumbi district; Rugarura, Nyamagabe district; Mageragere, Nyamagabe district; Gikomero, Gasabo district; Minazi, Gakenke district; Bigogwe, Nyabihu district, Rwanda Built Area: 490 square metres Timeframe: 2013 (Project); 20132014 (Construction)

Early Childhood Development & Family Centres Project: Nerea Amoros Elorduy and Tomà Berlanda (ASA studio) Design team: ASA studio: Nerea Amoros Elorduy and Tomà Berlanda with Michelle Stadelman, Francesco Stassi, Jacques Murama

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NLÉ Makoko Floating School Program: School, Community Building Area: 220 m2 End user: Makoko Waterfront Community Project timeline: Project initiation: May 2011 Consultation, Research & Design: June 2011-September 2012 Mockups and testing: September-October 2012 Flotation platform construction: November 2012 A-frame structure construction: December 2012-January 2013 Completion preview event: March 2, 2013 Project completion: April 2013

Technical collaborators: Blok Kats van Veen Architects, Dykstra – Naval Architects, Thieu Besselink, Roel Bosch, Urhahn + Borra, Pieters Bouwtechniek, Ikeyi & Arifayan, Matrix Design & Works Nig ltd., Solarmate Engineering Nig Ltd. Mabushi Residential Development Program: Low Density Residential Area: 1.07ha Status: Construction Documentation Team: Kunlé Adeyemi, Thijs Bouman, Segun Omodele, Chryso Onisiforou, Martin Oreoluwa, Berend Strijland, Monica Velasco

NLÉ team: Kunlé Adeyemi, Lisa Anderson, Thijs Bouman, Leslie Ebony, Marije Nederveen, Segun Omodele, Adekunle Olusola, Chryso Onisiforou, Martin Oreoluwa, Berend Strijland, Monica Velasco Makoko Waterfront Community: The Baales of Makoko/Iwaya Waterfront Community, with special mention of Baale Emmanuel Shemede, Noah Jesutin Shemede, Jeunbete Shemede, Makoko Community Development Association & Youth Leaders and Makoko Floating School building team.

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Noero Architects

Wolff Architects

Red Location Cultural Precinct

Inkwenkwezi Secondary School

Port Elizabeth, South Africa Started 1998 - ongoing Project team: Stage 1 (completed 2005, Museum): Jo Noero [principal architect] assisted by Heinrich Wolff, Rob McGiven, Tanzeem Rezack, Amit Patel, Avish Mistry, Ricardo Sa and John Blair Stage 2 (completed 2012, Library / Archive): Jo Noero [Principal architect] assisted by Rob McGiven and John Blair Stage 2 (completed 2012, Art gallery): Jo Noero [Principal Architect] assisted by Rob McGiven and John Blair

Architects: Noero Wolff Architects in association with Sonja Spamer Location: Du Noon, Cape Town Year: 2004 - 2006 Dimensions: 2500m² Functions: School - classrooms, hall, library, offices and sports field Project leader(s) Heinrich Wolff Collaborator(s) Bulelani Ketsekile, Nadia Tromp, Robert McGiven, Sonja Spamer

St Cyprian’s School Cape Town, South Africa Started 2005 - ongoing Project Team: Jo Noero [Principal Architect] assisted by Korine Stegman, Evandro Schwalbach, Mies de Vries and Michelle de Villiers Productive Republic 2013 Project team: Jo Noero [Principal Architect] assisted by David Long, Aaron Factor, Michelle de Villiers, Uno Perreira, Evandro Schwalbach and Melanie van Beunigen.

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Usasazo Secondary School Architects: Noero Wolff Architects Location: Khayelitsha, Cape Town Year: 2000 - 2003 Dimensions: 2500m² Functions: classrooms, hall, library, offices and sports field Project leader(s) Heinrich Wolff Collaborator(s): Sushma Patel, Robert McGiven, Bulelani Ketsekile Vredenburg Hospital Architects: Wolff Architects and Noero Wolff Architects Location: Vredenburg, Cape Town Year: 2006 - ongoing Dimensions: 8000m² Functions: Hospital, Theatres, Wards, support services, staff accommodation Project leader(s) Heinrich Wolff Collaborator(s) Ricardo Sa, Uno Pereira, Maria Wolff, Radinka van der Walt, Yusuf Vahed, Anastasia Messaris, Simon Birch, Mias de

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Vries, Adam Clemens, Nomonde Gwebu, Vivien Loseby, Ant Vervoort, Bayo Windapo, Lawden Holmes Workshop 17 Architects: Wolff Architects Location: V & A Waterfront, Cape Town Year: 2013 - 2014 Dimensions: 6000m² Functions; Business school innovation centre, Market, rentable offices, event space Project leader(s) Heinrich Wolff Collaborator(s) Adam Clemens, James Pierre du Plessis, Temba Jauch, Maria Wolff, Bayo Windapo, Lawden Holmes, Lloyd Martin, Stefan van Biljon

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