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for: Ousmane Toure
- Jahr
- 2021 - 2023
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- Diammaguen, Ville de Pikine, Senegal
- Many village or family communities in Senegal have houses in the capital Dakar and its suburbs in addition to their main residences, which are usually compounds consisting of several related individual houses. These second homes are used as accommodation for business/bureaucratic matters, and younger family members who come to Dakar, the economic centre of Senegal, to work, often live here for longer periods. c/o now has designed such a house for the family of Ousmane Touré, a Senegalese living in Berlin, which is orientated towards the type of town house common in Dakar, and can be read as a regionally specific form of the Masion Dom-Ino. The Berlin-based graphic designers from Büro Otto Sauhaus were responsible for the surface design. As the Touré family is a family of craftsmen, they worked exclusively with craftsmen they know, who - as is customary in Senegal - interpreted and significantly updated the plans during construction. The blueprint from Berlin, which essentially suggested small tricks to improve the natural ventilation of the house compared to the original type, was (surprisingly) realised with one more storey than planned. c/o now, who communicated with the team on site exclusively via WhatsApp, have - as they say themselves - ‘learnt to let go in places where you normally don't let go as an architect.’
- team c/o now
- Tobias Hönig, Andrijana Ivanda, Sarah Lampater, Markus Rampl, Paul Reinhardt, Ousmane Toure, Duy An Tran, Diyar Ünlücay
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Abb.___Ground floor, standard floor and top floor: planning (black) + adjustments by craftsmen (red).
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Abb.___The first residents move into the house while it is still under construction.
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Abb.___Necessary structure (black) + changes by craftsmen (red).
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Abb.___"And then they said, there's material left, we're already here anyway - come on, we'll build one more floor!"
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Abb.___Übersetzung der Architekturpläne in ein Modell durch die Grafik Designer*innen von Büro Otto Sauhaus.
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Abb.___Übersetzung der Architekturpläne in eine Verständnisskizze durch die Auftraggeber.
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Abb.___Collage des ersten Vorschlags.
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Abb.___Grundriss des Bestandsbaus, skizziert von den Auftraggebern.
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Abb.___Aufnahme bestehender Bauteile durch die Auftraggeber.
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Abb.___Reference for a roof terrace, somewhere in a kurdish town...
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