Roots Architecture Challenge at WOMAD; Charlton Park, 22nd – 25th July, Wiltshire
a showcase of architecture and building projects/methods worldwide in the humanitarian & aid sector – ranging from emergency shelter to community development & buildings.
The Kay e Sante nan Ayiti competition seeks to solicit ideas on housing prototypes for PLWHA (Persons Living With HIV or AIDS) that work to reduce the transmission of Tuberculosis in St. Marc, Haiti. Within the stated parameters, submissions may explore various size, scale, layout, grouping, building construction methods, structural responses, materials and form. ARCHIVE hopes to build five single family units and to adhere to a pre-established budget. The wider aim of the project is to provide transient 1-year health housing for PLWHA in addition to vocational and skills training.
AfHUK were recently part of the multidisciplinary panel discussing proposals as part of an exhibition hosted by the Peruvian Embassy and part of this year’s London Festival of Architecture.
Dates: 19th June – 3rd July
Location: The Peruvian Embassy, 52 Sloane Street, Knightsbridge, London SW1X
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 10.00am to 1.00pm and 3.00 to 4.30pm
images from edible places 2009
This year’s Architecture Sans Frontieres-UK summer school at the Eden Project will be a continuation of last year’s Edible Places summer school (http://www.asf-uk.org/case_studies.htm) and will be focusing on one of the most fundamental issues for the continued survival of human beings – food: where we produce it, how we access it and how we dispose of it. This workshop will explore ways of upgrading the urban environment through innovative and adaptable designs to respond to this need. Through lectures, prototype designs and construction we will study the urban environment and understand how it can be more suitably adapted for sustainable living and eating environments. We will debate the possible natures of urban food cycles with Katrin Bohn and Andre Viljoen authors of CPULs (continuous productive urban landscapes), Clare Brass a social entrepreneur, product designer and founder of Seed Foundation and Adriana Allen (Senior Lecturer and Director of the MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development at the Development Planning Unit, UCL). We will discuss the importance of food cycles, and understand how they should contribute towards productive urban landscapes. By including social, economic, political and environmental issues we will place the development of the urban context at both an individual and collective level.
The programme runs from 12pm on Friday 3rd to 6pm on Wednesday 8th of September and will be hosted by the Eden Project and ASF-UK. The workshop will include visits to the world renowned Eden Project and exposure to the many excellent programmes they run. Lectures will be held by Katrin Bohn and Andre Viljoen (Senior lecturers at the School of Architecture & Design, University of Brighton Bohn and Viljoen ), Adriana Allen (Senior Lecturer and Director of the MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development at the Development Planning Unit, UCL) and Clare Brass (social entrepreneur, product designer and founder of the Seed Foundation ).
Participants will then spend two and a half days designing and building prototypes and products for a sustainable food cycle. The prototype development will happen within the public realm at the Eden Project which will be a great opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of food security for every human being. The ASF-UK team will for this workshop include Melissa Kinnear (ASF-UK and tutor at Oxford Brookes University), Peter Newton (Roger Evans Associates), Mina Samangooei (Sustainable Architecture Masters graduate), Caroline Dewast and Teresa Rodriguez (Architecture diploma students) and the horticultural team at the Eden Project. The cost is of £65 per day – £325 for the whole week which includes fees, food and camping cost ; there is and option for CPD training for £200 Saturday and Sunday food and accommodation included.
AfHUK are having an informal Meet Up at The Book Club – 100 Leonard St.
The London Festival of Architecture.
Informal Exchange comes to Speaker’s Crescent
To listen to details of the talk follow this link
AfHUK are having an informal Meet Up at The Book Club – 100 Leonard St.
Alan Baxter Gallery, 75 Cowcross Street, London. EC1M 6EL.
Tickets : £7 / £5 cons.
Refreshments available.
Architecture for Humanity UK is raising funds for Haiti relief efforts with a special screening of the award winning film ‘One Peace at a Time‘, by Turk Pipkin. This screening is part of the fundraising efforts by Architecture for Humanity International to help long-term reconstruction support in Haiti after the January 12th earthquake.
Providing children with their basic needs is a challenge in the developing world and the subject of Turk Pipkin’s thought provoking film. He spent two years travelling around the world documenting inspirational aid projects in developing countries. These include an Ethiopian water project, The Hole-in-the-Wall schools scheme, a model Indian orphanage and housing in the Himalayas. Turk Pipkin talked to key people commited to improving the lives of children growing up in poverty including Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Gayle (CEO of CARE International), and Cameron Sinclair (Co-Founder, Executive Director of Architecture for Humanity).
Music by Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson.
The event will begin with a few words from an AfHUK speaker on the latest developments in Haiti.
AfHUK has been invited to take part in the mantownhuman debate:
Design Like you Give a Damn:
‘The Benefits of Socially Irresponsible Design
Venue: BDP, Brewhouse Yard, London EC1V 4LJ
Tickets: £7 / £5 concessions
Cameron Sinclair, founder of Architecture for Humanity will be speaking at the RGS as part of the 21st Century Challenge Series
Venue: Royal Geographic Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR
7pm, Tuesday 25th May 2010