Post by hanuman on May 30, 2016 8:08:51 GMT -6
Entry #511244303
GYAASE
Ethno-architecture for self-sufficiency
GYAASE
Ethno-architecture for self-sufficiency
_Design Team :
HanUMAN architecture & urbanisme (France)
Celia BELISLE FABRE, Morgan GUILLOT, Erwann LANEAU
_Design statement :
Sustainable development should be included in education for coming generations. It is not a matter of specialization, it should be global and should make populations self-sufficient. For this purpose, the concepts of ecology, economy and social have to be viable, livable and fair ; taking into account cultures, the environment and basic needs.
We have therefore chosen the laboratory, place of specialized education (cultural and technical) gathering biology, physics and chemistry skills, essential to determine technical and architectural solutions coherent with the context.
The design of the laboratory takes also into consideration the classrooms and the productive garden as well. The lab, with his garden, creates the connection between food nourishment and intellectual nourishment.
The laboratory as a cultural support :
The laboratory is inspired from a typical traditional Asante courtyard house, or a shrine house, which is usually made up of some buildings enclosing a central courtyard also called “gyaase”. One of the buildings, the laboratory, as the shrine of Besease, dominates the courtyard and is closed by decorated walls.
As the case with other traditional art forms of the Asante, these decorations are not mere ornamentation but have symbolic meanings, handed down from generation to generation. These symbols are incorporated into the elevation as an imprint in bas relief. The latters resemble and are directly related to Adinkra symbols thus representing the knowledge and the life-long education, the support, the cooperation and the interdependence, the experience, and the democracy. This form of non-verbal communication played an important role in the traditional Asante society and was also an important medium of documentation.
All around the laboratory, benches allow to sit down to relax shattered by eaves, and enjoy the tranquility and the freshness of the courtyard and its fruit trees.
Le laboratory as a technical support :
The overall form (laboratory + 8 classrooms + courtyard) protect from the outdoor climate (wind), and the courtyard, the lung of the project, regulate the indoor climate (shaded area, thermal inertia, refreshing moisture), favoring heat exchanges (natural ventilation).
The laboratory is designed as an autonomous and self-sufficient unit.
The courtyard (sacred heart) receives on one hand a draining system replacing the gutters of the classrooms (reducing the cost of construction) in order to irrigate the cultures in a natural way, and on the other hand a power generation system using photosynthesis of plants. Finally, the gutters of the laboratory are maintained in order to collect rainwater and store it for the dryness period, to supply the classrooms' experiments (this system could be also linked to sanitary).
The project mixes the biology with the chemistry as well as the physics ; which favors materials and local know-how : rammed earth walls, frame with local wood, bench with local palm trees, bamboo latticework. The laboratory become a Fab’ Lab’.
This project is an contemporary reinterpretation of the sacred architecture in order to enhance the level of education.
_Budget for laboratory construction :
Roofing =
104m² Corrugated zinc - $ 945
345ml Structural timber - $300
104m² Plywood - $290
60ml Gutter - $300
Walling =
108m3 Rammed earth
Light timber (palm tree)
Foundations & flooring =
11 100kg Cement - $2 110
30 525kg Sand - $165
48 470kg Aggregate - $330
Water
28 Bundle wire mesh - $1680
Fittings =
2 Doors - $ 20
10 Windows (frame – louvres) - $70
24 Bulb - $75
33ml Electric wire - $70
4 Rainwater tank - $1 200
Bamboo latticework
Photosynthesis power system - $400
Miscellaneous =
22ml Wood for bench (palm tree)
TOTAL = $7 955 USD
HanUMAN architecture & urbanisme (France)
Celia BELISLE FABRE, Morgan GUILLOT, Erwann LANEAU
_Design statement :
Sustainable development should be included in education for coming generations. It is not a matter of specialization, it should be global and should make populations self-sufficient. For this purpose, the concepts of ecology, economy and social have to be viable, livable and fair ; taking into account cultures, the environment and basic needs.
We have therefore chosen the laboratory, place of specialized education (cultural and technical) gathering biology, physics and chemistry skills, essential to determine technical and architectural solutions coherent with the context.
The design of the laboratory takes also into consideration the classrooms and the productive garden as well. The lab, with his garden, creates the connection between food nourishment and intellectual nourishment.
The laboratory as a cultural support :
The laboratory is inspired from a typical traditional Asante courtyard house, or a shrine house, which is usually made up of some buildings enclosing a central courtyard also called “gyaase”. One of the buildings, the laboratory, as the shrine of Besease, dominates the courtyard and is closed by decorated walls.
As the case with other traditional art forms of the Asante, these decorations are not mere ornamentation but have symbolic meanings, handed down from generation to generation. These symbols are incorporated into the elevation as an imprint in bas relief. The latters resemble and are directly related to Adinkra symbols thus representing the knowledge and the life-long education, the support, the cooperation and the interdependence, the experience, and the democracy. This form of non-verbal communication played an important role in the traditional Asante society and was also an important medium of documentation.
All around the laboratory, benches allow to sit down to relax shattered by eaves, and enjoy the tranquility and the freshness of the courtyard and its fruit trees.
Le laboratory as a technical support :
The overall form (laboratory + 8 classrooms + courtyard) protect from the outdoor climate (wind), and the courtyard, the lung of the project, regulate the indoor climate (shaded area, thermal inertia, refreshing moisture), favoring heat exchanges (natural ventilation).
The laboratory is designed as an autonomous and self-sufficient unit.
The courtyard (sacred heart) receives on one hand a draining system replacing the gutters of the classrooms (reducing the cost of construction) in order to irrigate the cultures in a natural way, and on the other hand a power generation system using photosynthesis of plants. Finally, the gutters of the laboratory are maintained in order to collect rainwater and store it for the dryness period, to supply the classrooms' experiments (this system could be also linked to sanitary).
The project mixes the biology with the chemistry as well as the physics ; which favors materials and local know-how : rammed earth walls, frame with local wood, bench with local palm trees, bamboo latticework. The laboratory become a Fab’ Lab’.
This project is an contemporary reinterpretation of the sacred architecture in order to enhance the level of education.
_Budget for laboratory construction :
Roofing =
104m² Corrugated zinc - $ 945
345ml Structural timber - $300
104m² Plywood - $290
60ml Gutter - $300
Walling =
108m3 Rammed earth
Light timber (palm tree)
Foundations & flooring =
11 100kg Cement - $2 110
30 525kg Sand - $165
48 470kg Aggregate - $330
Water
28 Bundle wire mesh - $1680
Fittings =
2 Doors - $ 20
10 Windows (frame – louvres) - $70
24 Bulb - $75
33ml Electric wire - $70
4 Rainwater tank - $1 200
Bamboo latticework
Photosynthesis power system - $400
Miscellaneous =
22ml Wood for bench (palm tree)
TOTAL = $7 955 USD