Project Name:
House of 75 Columns
Client Name:
Professor Daniel Baerlecken
Location:
Kumasi, Ghana
Status:
Complete - Fall 2019

 

Center for academic research, classes and labs. In addiotion to corn farms and storage for the corn produced on and off site.

The building is fabricated with precast concrete and bricks. Local masonry tecniques to bear loads and create openings for light and ventilation.

The design challange is the absense of air conditioning and the goal is to create cooler spaces through architecture. To achevive this there has been a lot of attention put into windrose and taking advatage of them by a design that facilitates right orientation and ventilation through the spaces.