Francis Kéré — schools and community centers, Burkina Faso
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Francis Kere designs schools and community centers in Burkina Faso using local clay, stone, and wood, including a re-engineered compressed earth brick that is more durable than adobe and far less energy-intensive than fired brick.
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Francis Kéré consistently designs buildings that treat local materials as invaluable Resources. His projects for schools and community centers in his native Burkina Faso often utilize locally sourced clay, laterite stone, and eucalyptus wood, minimizing transport costs and embodied energy. He re-engineered the process for making clay bricks, using a manual press to create compressed stabilized earth blocks (CSEBs) that are denser and more durable than traditional adobe, yet require far less energy than fired bricks.
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- Materiom · both placed under Finite and infinite resources
- Cradle to Cradle (book by William McDonough and Michael Braungart) · discussed together in section 151
- Design for the Real World (book by Victor Papanek) · discussed together in section 151
- Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) · discussed together in section 151
- Kamikatsu Zero Waste · discussed together in section 151
- The Tool Library, Columbus, Ohio · discussed together in section 151
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- Cradle to Cradle (book by William McDonough and Michael Braungart) · discussed together in section 151
- Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change · discussed together in section 151
- The Story of Stuff · discussed together in section 151
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- Cradle to Cradle (book by William McDonough and Michael Braungart) · discussed together in section 151
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- Environment (Ecological Niche)
- Technological Component
- Materials · variable
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