Agbogbloshie Association
Accra, Ghana
master thesis, 2020
Studio Sejima, Studio Diaz Moreno Garcia Grinda
Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts Vienna
visuals, photos: Toms Kampars
The project aims to stop the hazardous activities currently taking place in Agbogbloshie - one of the most polluted places on Earth. The interventions are designed for improvement of leisure, labor and knowledge transfer conditions within the site with the least resources possible using the ‘tripod’ as a genome behind the design.
Learning center is planned as the main knot, designed to facilitate labor under improved and environmentally friendly conditions while providing spaces for knowledge transfer, social gathering and leisure. Learning center should promote creative processes, such as making and innovation through reassembling and re-purposing waste.
The architecture celebrates the locally available building techniques, know-how and skills as much as materials that can be up-cycled and used for affordable constructions. The construction of the learning center should promote further construction on similar basis, adapting knowledge to particular need within the area.