Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: Woman's Opportunity Center Model

Archivision Base to Module 13

Woman's Opportunity Center Model

Detail, rain chain collecting rainwater runoff from roof into underground cistern

Sharon Davis Design (American architectural firm, founded 2007)

exhibition: Museum for Art of the XXI Century (MAXXI) (Rome, Lazio, Italy)

Via Guido Reni, 4

+41.929+12.466

2015 (exhibition); built 2013 (creation)

African (general, continental cultures); Rwandan

Twenty-first century

model (representation)

Architecture and City Planning

wood; wicker (simulating brick in the finished build)

construction (assembling)

agriculture; architecture; contemporary (1960 to present); Housing; Sustainable buildings; rural village; agrarian; resettlement; refugees

The model was part of an exhibit at MAXXI, photographed July, 2015. Architect's statement: "On a two-hectare site in Kayonza, Rwanda, the most densely populated country in Africa, the Women’s Opportunity Center is empowering one small community. We chose the idea of a vernacular Rwandan village as our organizing principle: a series of human-scaled pavilions clustered to create security and community for up to 300 women [war survivors]...circular structures are modeled after the historic King’s Palace in southern Rwanda, whose woven-reed dwellings were part of an indigenous tradition that the region had all but lost. Our design draws on the delicacy of this vernacular Rwandan construction method with rounded, perforated brick walls that allow for passive cooling and solar shading, while maintaining a sense of privacy. " The model shows one of the small round family pavilions, part of the village that includes farming and a community center (built in 2013). The 450,000 clay bricks needed for construction were created on site by the women. (Source: ArchDaily; http://www.archdaily.com/)

Archivision Addition Module Eleven

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