AWARD YEAR
2019
CATEGORY
Play & Learning
GOALS
Quality Education
KEYWORDS
Flexible School, Remote Community/Village, Local Material (Clay, Wood, Rammed Earth, Stone, Straw)
COUNTRY
Cameroon
DESIGNED BY
Hermann Kamte is an award-winning Cameroonian Architect. He is the Founding Associates and the Creative Director at HKA | Hermann Kamte & Associates. Hermann has received numerous awards and honors, including the WAFX Prize’s Cultural Identity Prize in 2017 at the World Architecture Festival, the Gold in Architectural Design at the American Prize of Architecture. He is a frequent public speaker and has spoken in venues such as CTBUH, ARCHITECTURE ZA and LAFARGEHOLCIM FOUNDATION.
WEBSITE
https://www.hermann-kamte.com/traditional-spline-school
TRADITIONAL SPLINE SCHOOL
Traditional Spline School is a Flexible program (School and Community Center) for Remote Community
The project is inspired by traditional African architecture: the Case of Africa. To give originality to our work, The Project is a flexible program consisting of a School and a Cultural Or Community facilities.
Niger is the largest country of West Africa; the land consists of 80% of the Sahara and Sahel. This is one of the poorest country of Africa. Niger is one of the lowest-ranked in the United Nations' Human Development Index (HDI) in the world (ranked 187th). Here, 90% of the population is engaged in agriculture with a The low literacy rate of 28.7%.
across the country The village of Fachi (Agram) is installed near an oasis in the north, in the Agadez region. Located more than 1000 km of Niamey, It has 2,000 inhabitants whose only resources are water, dates and salt. Fachi has no equipment or facilities. There is a hot desert climate, an extreme hyper-arid area with virtually zero annual rainfall.
