Children's House in Africa - Architecture Competition || תחרויות

Title: Children's House in Africa
Organizers: Kaira Looro Architecture & Balouo Salo Humanitarian Organization
Language: English
Venue: Baghere, Senegal
Early registrations : 15th Jan - 28th Febr 2022
Late registrations : 11st Apr - 15th May 2022
Submissione Deadline: 13th June 2022
Awards: 1st Prize:5.000€ + Construction + Internship at Kengo Kuma, 2nd Prize: 2.000€ + Internship at Mario Cucinella Architects , 3nd Prize: 1.000€ + Internship at SBGA Blengini Ghirardelli, 2 Honourable Mentions 100€ ,5 Special Mentions ,20 Finalists, 20 Top 50.

Kaira Looro Architecture Competition is a design contest open to students and young architects with aims to discover new talents and to adopt sustainable architecture models for humanitarian purpose to improve life conditions in developing countries. Cash prizes, Internship and construction are provided for winners, selected by an international jury made up of pregistous architectural firms.

The challenge of 2022's edition is to design a ‘'Children’s House’' in Senegal, as a warm and welcoming place where activities aimed at preventing child malnutrition can be carried out in a rural environment. The children of today are the leaders of tomorrow; allowing them to develop properly is essential in order to build a better future.


Children's House in Africa - Architecture Competition. Photo Credit: Kaira Looro Architecture

Children's House- To protect health and prevent malnutrition in Africa
We imagine a ‘Children’s House’ as a warm and welcoming place where activities aimed at preventing child malnutrition can be carried out in a rural environment. The children of today are the leaders of tomorrow; allowing them to develop properly is essential in order to build a better future. Today, 149 million children in the world suffer from growth retardation resulting from nutritional difficulties caused by poverty, conflicts and the environmental crisis. An adequate diet, especially in the first 5 years of life, means facilitating the psychological and physical development necessary to develop all of the fundamental abilities to participate in social life. For these reasons, the 2022 edition of the Kairo Looro competition has chosen the selection and construction of a ‘Children’s House’ to accommodate monitoring and assistance activities for children at risk of malnutrition as its objective. This will be our contribution to the second objective of the Sustainable Developments ‘Zero Hunger by 2030’ Goals. Will we succeed?


Children's House in Africa - Architecture Competition. Photo Credit: Kaira Looro Architecture

Design
The architecture of the ‘Children’s House’ will be a space intended to prevent child malnutrition by providing nutritional material, the development of hygiene and healthcare awareness raising programmes, the organisation of paediatric and social care appointments, housing for at-risk patients, and the training of community nurses, who will guide local families on best practice in relation to prevention and nutrition. The design will be constructed in the context of a humanitarian programme, with a team of volunteers and with the participation of the beneficiary community, it should therefore meet some particular construction need.The architecture will need to host the following activities, to which the designed areas must independently correspond or relate to one another depending on the designer’s idea.

Participants will be sent [after registration] additional materials necessary for the project’s development:
data sheets, prices, images, and characteristics of the primary materials; maps of the village of Baghere and the valley; overview of the Tanaff Valley; images of the village of Baghere, Tanaff, and the valley; CAD and photographs of the construction site; Layouts of the designs.

For more detailes enter competition Website:

https://www.kairalooro.com/competition_childrenhouse/en_index.html