Architecture Competition - Primary School in Africa || תחרויות

Title: Architecture Competition - Primary School in Africa
Normal registrations : 1st March - 9th Apr 2023
Submissione Deadline: 11st June 2023
Organizers: Kaira Looro
Language: English
Location: Senegal - Africa
Type: Open, Competition Announcement [Built Projects & Masterplans]
Prizes: 1st Prize,5.000€ + Construction + Internship at Kengo Kuma.2nd Prize,2.000€ + Internship at EMBT 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 20232's edition is to design a ‘'Primary School’' in Southern of Senegal. We are looking for a new school model that can protect and foster the development of every child's potential!




The right to education is one of the fundamental and inalienable rights of any person, as well as a principle established in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, yet for more than 600 million children worldwide, this right is not guaranteed due to fragile economic, political and health conditions, the presence of conflicts, natural disasters, stereotypes and socio-cultural prejudices.

In Sub-Saharan Africa, most schools are not able to offer services that can protect the student, make them feel safe, and foster the development of their potential. Without a quality education, children will not be able to acquire the necessary skills to cope with life's problems and find useful employment to make them independent, and they will not be able to participate in the decisions that affect them, thus putting their future at risk.

Design: the new school
The aim of the selection process is to select an architectural model of a primary school that can raise the level of education for children, secure the right to study, ensure health and provide the psycho-physical and health conditions necessary to develop each student’s potential. A facility that is not only limited to school courses, but that can host cross-curricular activities is ideal, a place that is not only a school but also a community. Through architecture, shapes and colours, the aim is to create a model that inspires confidence in the students, the community and the authorities. A unique and symbolic, yet simple, place of identity in which every child can find themselves and begin to build their future. The project must be conceived as feasible in a process of a humanitarian intervention and self-construction, i.e., without qualified personnel and with the direct participation of the local community; it must, therefore, meet certain construction requirements.

For more detailes enter competition Website:
https://www.kairalooro.com/