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Exciting two-week design workshop between Ikhayalami and ETH Chair of Architecture and Urban Design, Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner.
The objectives for the workshop are to design a double story shack upgrade that meet the following criteria: affordable, easy to transport, simple and quick to build while at same time being a vast improvement to current living conditions in informal settlements. The structure should be built on stilts so that it can mitigate flooding issues. It should also be built of fire retardant material. The desing aspects should be simple yet structurally stable and efficient. The aim of the prototype is that it can fit into community led processes as well as meet the aspirational needs of individuals that might not be linked to broader blocking-out projects. Ikhayalami will produce or pre-cut some aspects of the production in our factory (the core and the key structural elements) while other aspects can be manufactured with ease on site.
Other important aspects of the Em-power shack are to develop a Feed In Solar Tarriff model that will provide energy to the inhabitants of the shack as well as generate surplus energy that can go towards paying of some of the capital cost of building a core infrastructural unit.
Another objective of the collaboration, which is not a focus of the workshop, is to develop a back-end architectural programme that once information is submitted into the programme will be able to give a multitude of layout options at a push of a button. This is a work in progress as is the double story.
The aim is to build the double story prototype in SA as soon as funds are raised for this activity. The ultimate aim is to replicate this prototype at scale.
For the workshop blog go to WWW.EMPOWERSHACK.COM
To view the full poster see documents
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