AFH Project

OUTREACH: Mobile Health Clinics to Combat HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

Project Location: Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa & Arab States
Building Type: Health Clinic
Project Descripton:
The statistics are staggering. It is estimated that three-quarters of the world’s AIDS population lives in Sub-Saharan Africa; most have no access to lifesaving drugs, testing facilities or even basic preventative health care. One of the major....

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Paper Loghouse

Project Location: Kosovo
Building Type: Transitional Shelter
Project Descripton:
Paper tube structure can last permanently.

Paper Tube Structure is the structural system composed of hollow cardboard tubes made by recycled paper. PTS has been given the structural permissions from Japanese and German building....

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EBCRC Volunteer Housing Project

Project Location: Biloxi, Mississippi, United States
Building Type: Residential – 2 BR
Project Descripton:
This house was a bungalow - shotgun hybrid in a working class neighborhood of Biloxi, Mississippi before Hurricane Katrina. Since the storm it stood gutted and empty until its owner donated it to the East Biloxi Coordination and Relief Center,....

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Extreme Housing

Project Location: Kosovo
Building Type: Transitional Shelter
Project Descripton:
Our strategy and goal is the immediate return of the people of Kosovo to the sites of their former homes.

Site
Rather than create structures and sites of dislocation, we propose a system that can provide initial emergency....

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Tree of Life

Project Location: Kosovo
Building Type: Transitional Shelter
Project Descripton:
Background
Tree of Life is a universal system, the construction of which can be infinitely varied according to local culture and conditions. The design is a basic unit providing basic human needs for water and shelter. The intent is....

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Permanence /Mobility /Permanence

Project Location: Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa & Arab States
Building Type: Health Clinic
Project Descripton:

permanence / mobility / permanence
from the mobility of a clinic to the permanence of care.

Today, Aids decimates entire populations throughout all of Africa. The mission of this mobile clinic is to bring medical....

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Siyathemba Community Infrastructure Project

Project Location: Somkhele, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
Building Type: Youth Center, Stadium/Sports Facility, Health Clinic, Community Center, …
Project Descripton: The project proposes an infrastructure of simple architectural elements – platforms of compacted ground, a grove of composite columns, meandering self-buttressing earthen walls, a canopy of timber trusses and folded roof planes – employed to....

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FedEx Pak is Playground

Project Location: Siyathemba, Somkhele, Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa
Building Type: Community Center
Project Descripton: This FedEx Pak Project is not about making single building, it is about making a world wide SYSTEM and it will spread to other villages in the future.

1- FedEx a donation (e.g., medical supplies, footballs, toys, books, etc.) to....

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Soudhanikuppam Community Center and Village Square

Project Location: Tamil, Nadu, Soudhanikuppam, Dist. of Villipu, India
Building Type: Community Center
Project Descripton:

SITE SELECTION: Soudhanikuppam, is a village comprising 116 families of fisherman belonging to the Pattinavar fishing caste, has been selected as an appropriate site to build a community center. The village did not sustain....

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Yodakandyia Community Complex

Community Center | AFH Project | Architecture for Humanity | Sri Lanka

Project Location: Tissamaharama, Hambantota, Sri Lanka
Building Type: Community Center
Project Descripton:
In the District of Hambantota situated on Sri Lanka's south coast, Architecture for Humanity is working with UN Habitat to build three community buildings comprising a Community Center, a Library & Medical Centre and a Preschool. A new....

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