1- Darfur Shelter
Co-ordinators: Jeremy Till
Client: A4A, the Built Environment Charity
Millions of people have been displaced by over four years of conflict in the Sudan and are fleeing to temporary camps near Darfur’s main towns. To rebuild the destroyed villages would take far more timber than is avaible in the country, so alternative methods of semi-permanent accommodation is required until the refugees can return home.
Adobe construction is common to Subsaharan Africa, though the manufacture of mud bricks uses much water, of which there is barely enough to drink. A4A (Architects For Aid) has asked us to research the use of urine as a possible binding agent in mud brick building.
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