Team: (Personal Project) Ronald Businge - Design and presentation Cynthia Mukyala - Research, feedback Ann Murungi - Research team Social Womb Architecture The idea is to model a social womb out of the earth for the children. The social womb’s notion of space is inspired by a womb’s emotional and physical nourishment to a child. In the social womb, the young children are introduced to a warm and safe environment where they can develop reliable bonds among themselves and the people that look after them. Traditional or local healing and nourishment comes from the elements of nature; earth, fire, water and wind. The goal is to engage the local community to mold a localized social womb architecture that speaks for these elements. Fire is the warm spirit of togetherness around which the children gather. Water is a nourishing and cleansing feature in the womb. Wind highlights the flow of spaces into a central social core and through out to spaces like the garden. The earth’s sand and soil provides the shelter and protected womb environment.