Haiti June 2010
The Afghanistan Orphanage [visit]
Follow every step of a school and orphanage design in Haiti [visit]
From
START to
FINISH! Follow every step of our way from a school schematic design to
construction!
We will document our design and construction progress at The Open
Architecture Network. The Open Architecture Network is an online, open
source
community dedicated to improving living conditions through innovative
and
sustainable design.
Debris Design winner [visit] May 15. 2010
by Jong-Hwa Lee and Lim Hye-Jin. Debris Design is a
design competition focused on removing
materials from the waste stream in post-earthquake Haiti
and using design ingenuity to
alter them for new daily-life uses. The goal is to develop uses for
these
materials that respond to basic, life-sustaining needs, both immediate
and
long-term. check out remarkable designs
University of Utah students are designing a school in Haiti
COMMON|studio and
University of Utah College of Architecture + Planning have taken the initiative
to respond to the devastating earthquake in Haiti. COMMON|studio and
University of Utah College of Architecture + Planning have partnered with
Haitian Roots, a nonprofit organization which provides educational services to
children of Haiti, to build a school in Croix des Bouquet, Haiti. The goal is to fulfill
the needs of the future generation of Haitians by building and running a
primary school for children during the day and a technical school for the youth
at night. The design goal is to build safe, sustainable, highly innovative, and
socially appropriate structure.
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