Multi-Purpose Women Center for a Community in Kisarawe,Tanzania - Enhancing social resilience through architecture
(2022) AAHM10 20221Department of Architecture and Built Environment
- Abstract
- Architecture greatly influences people‘s lives regarding health, stability, and education and is crucial for economic and social development. This architectural thesis project aims to improve the living conditions of a marginalized community in a rural Tanzanian village, Kisarawe, through a design proposal. It analyzes the potential of humanitarian architecture from the international, European, and local Tanzanian perspectives, focusing on gender issues and women‘s empowerment in lower-income countries.
Tanzania is not only located on a different continent, climate and time zone, it additionally has a whole different history that shaped it into the country it is now. What is the social and economic background, and what are the area,... (More) - Architecture greatly influences people‘s lives regarding health, stability, and education and is crucial for economic and social development. This architectural thesis project aims to improve the living conditions of a marginalized community in a rural Tanzanian village, Kisarawe, through a design proposal. It analyzes the potential of humanitarian architecture from the international, European, and local Tanzanian perspectives, focusing on gender issues and women‘s empowerment in lower-income countries.
Tanzania is not only located on a different continent, climate and time zone, it additionally has a whole different history that shaped it into the country it is now. What is the social and economic background, and what are the area, the culture, and the people like? Which importance has humanitarian architecture and women empowerment in rural Tanzania?
For the project to be feasible, it is essential to learn about construction in lower-income countries, traditional building methods and materiality in Tanzania, and study building methods in hot and humid climates to explore an efficient and economical way to design and build.
The gained knowledge is set together into a design proposal that aims to empower the women of Kisarawe. The result is a multi-purpose women‘s center that develops over time while providing space to feel safe for exchanging knowledge, community work, and the production of building materials. Starting with the manufacturing of cement-stabilized soil blocks as an income-generating opportunity, it grows into a construction shop that provides knowledge, tools, and materials to accomplish much-needed housing improvements for the community in and around the village.
The goal is to reduce poverty, strengthen the independence of Kisarawe‘s women within and around the village, and thus the resilience of the whole community. (Less)
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- author
- Frank, Katharina LU
- supervisor
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- Laura Liuke LU
- Jouri Kanters LU
- organization
- course
- AAHM10 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- language
- English
- id
- 9088196
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abstract = {{Architecture greatly influences people‘s lives regarding health, stability, and education and is crucial for economic and social development. This architectural thesis project aims to improve the living conditions of a marginalized community in a rural Tanzanian village, Kisarawe, through a design proposal. It analyzes the potential of humanitarian architecture from the international, European, and local Tanzanian perspectives, focusing on gender issues and women‘s empowerment in lower-income countries.
Tanzania is not only located on a different continent, climate and time zone, it additionally has a whole different history that shaped it into the country it is now. What is the social and economic background, and what are the area, the culture, and the people like? Which importance has humanitarian architecture and women empowerment in rural Tanzania?
For the project to be feasible, it is essential to learn about construction in lower-income countries, traditional building methods and materiality in Tanzania, and study building methods in hot and humid climates to explore an efficient and economical way to design and build.
The gained knowledge is set together into a design proposal that aims to empower the women of Kisarawe. The result is a multi-purpose women‘s center that develops over time while providing space to feel safe for exchanging knowledge, community work, and the production of building materials. Starting with the manufacturing of cement-stabilized soil blocks as an income-generating opportunity, it grows into a construction shop that provides knowledge, tools, and materials to accomplish much-needed housing improvements for the community in and around the village.
The goal is to reduce poverty, strengthen the independence of Kisarawe‘s women within and around the village, and thus the resilience of the whole community.}},
author = {{Frank, Katharina}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Multi-Purpose Women Center for a Community in Kisarawe,Tanzania - Enhancing social resilience through architecture}},
year = {{2022}},
}