AWARD YEAR
2019
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Climate Action
KEYWORDS
climate change, Lake Chad, scientific research
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
http://africanism.net/the-forgotten-a-proposal-to-save-lake-chad/
THE FORGOTTEN | DEAD OR ALIVE
Behind The Regeneration of the Lake Chad : From the Artificial to The Natural Process
The Forgotten | Dead Or Alive is a research proposal that has been revealed the shortlist for the inaugural Water Research Prize at the World Architecture Festival 2018. This project has been started in order to help disadvantaged and isolated communities in Africa. In February 2018 an international conference on Lake Chad was held in Abuja.
If nothing is done, it will belong to the past. This ecosystem has been evaluated as one of the best cultivable area in the world at the beginning the century. The catastrophe directly affects more than 9 million persons and 30 million indirectly in this region. From 2 million km2 In 50,000 B.C., to 25,000 km2 in 1963; or 4,000 km2 in 2001, it will become a drying desert.
Regeneration will consist of a Limnology and a Desalination Centre. The Limnology Centre will be a self-sufficient with the mission to study the lake and its surroundings. At the same time, the Desalination Centre with its Pipelines will connect the Atlantic Ocean and Lake.
