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w/ Büro Otto Sauhaus
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for: Ousmane Toure

year
2021 - 2023
Location
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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Ground floor, standard floor and top floor: planning (black) + adjustments by craftsmen (red).
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The first residents move into the house while it is still under construction.
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Existing building.
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Necessary structure (black) + changes by craftsmen (red).
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"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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Translation of the architect's plans into a model by the graphic designers of Otto Sauhaus.
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Material study by Büro Otto Sauhaus.
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Translation of the architect's plans into a comprehension sketch by the clients.
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Collage of the first proposal.
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Floor plan of the existing building, sketched by the clients.
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Building survey of existing components by the clients.
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Reference for a roof terrace, somewhere in a kurdish town...
Photography: Diyar Ünlücay

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