H
HANDMADE
Handmade House Ghana was a student run summer workshop that ran from
June to August 2015; its objective to build a house using traditional earth
construction techniques combined with modern design. The brief was for a
US $6 000 house for 5-7 people using earth as the main building material,
designed to appeal to the local people who would be living in and around the
buildings. This is the Ghanaian-based charity, the NKA Foundation’s response
to the boom in the use of cement in Ghana, a country where the use of earth in
construction is stigmatised as a ‘poor man’s building material’.
By Louis Mayes
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africandesignmagazine.com