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Amphibious Eco Village, Kenya

Year: 2020

Category: Cultural Architecture

Skills: SketchUp, AutoCAD, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign

Team: (Personal Project) Ronald Businge Design Intention; Amphibious Eco Village Water bodies are a source of life, energy and inspiration to the communities in the Tana river delta, Kenya. The delta is a place of residence whose locals are being forced to abandon because of floods and lack of enough fresh water, as the ocean’s saline water slowly makes its way to the inland. All this is attributed to climate change and this design proposal looks at how the locals can adapt to its effects so that they can keep their homes. By re-interpreting the easy to build local pastoralist’s architecture, this proposal looks at amphibious designs for the communities to deal with the fluctuating water levels. Here buildings locally constructed out of light weight materials are fitted with recycled buoyant plastic so that they can rise and descend to their original state after a flood. The proposal looks at Macro, Family and Micro scales

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Ronald Businge