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Community Hall
Community Hall
Moshi Urban, Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania
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Community Hall
Moshi Urban, Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania
Project Featured on Nov 01, 2017
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2016
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$0 - 10K
This project was carried out in collaboration with FT Kilimanjaro (FTK), a non-governmental organization registered in Tanzania - a joint initiative of the Dutch FEMI Foundation; and TPC Company Ltd. They envision flourishing communities in Lower Moshi void of poverty and despair, where all have access to basic health care, education and opportunities to be productive and earn a livelihood. Among other projects, FTK is concentrating on infrastructural upgrading for the area of Mikocheni. They contacted C-re-aid to work on a community center that would serve as an administrative and business space for the village.
The community hall is located in Mikocheni, a dry, semi-arid area in the South of Moshi. It is a village bordering one of Tanzania’s largest sugar estates, TPC. The village is generally characterised by mud huts. These huts are built out of a wood structure, then filled up with mud and covered with a papyrus roof. Only a few houses are built in a ‘Western’ way, using bricks and corrugated roofsheets. As well the traditional mud huts as the ‘Western’ houses acknowledge structural problems. In fact, the area is characterized by the presence of aggressive minerals in the soil, which greatly affects the lower portions of buildings causing significant structural damages. Regarding to this, specific design and building techniques has been used.
The program for the building requires a meeting hall, an outdoor covered space, a small office and a storage room with adjacent shop for agricultural products that are produced and sold by the village members. C-re-aid worked closely with the community and focused on the use of locally available materials, techniques and labor, while at the same time the team has been trying to push the boundaries to test innovative solutions.
The foundation of the community hall was built about 50 cm above ground level. This way the building arises a bit above its surroundings and has more the allure of a public building. To prevent the foundation from being exposed to the salty soil a piece of plastic was placed underneath the foundation.
The structure of the building is in mainly built out of cement blocks walls and wooden pillars; on which wooden trusses are connected to, with steel joints. A lime plaster was applied on the walls, with a color pigment in it. The windows and doors consist out of a steel framework, filled in with left over timber recycled from the wood used for casting.
The community hall is located in Mikocheni, a dry, semi-arid area in the South of Moshi. It is a village bordering one of Tanzania’s largest sugar estates, TPC. The village is generally characterised by mud huts. These huts are built out of a wood structure, then filled up with mud and covered with a papyrus roof. Only a few houses are built in a ‘Western’ way, using bricks and corrugated roofsheets. As well the traditional mud huts as the ‘Western’ houses acknowledge structural problems. In fact, the area is characterized by the presence of aggressive minerals in the soil, which greatly affects the lower portions of buildings causing significant structural damages. Regarding to this, specific design and building techniques has been used.
The program for the building requires a meeting hall, an outdoor covered space, a small office and a storage room with adjacent shop for agricultural products that are produced and sold by the village members. C-re-aid worked closely with the community and focused on the use of locally available materials, techniques and labor, while at the same time the team has been trying to push the boundaries to test innovative solutions.
The foundation of the community hall was built about 50 cm above ground level. This way the building arises a bit above its surroundings and has more the allure of a public building. To prevent the foundation from being exposed to the salty soil a piece of plastic was placed underneath the foundation.
The structure of the building is in mainly built out of cement blocks walls and wooden pillars; on which wooden trusses are connected to, with steel joints. A lime plaster was applied on the walls, with a color pigment in it. The windows and doors consist out of a steel framework, filled in with left over timber recycled from the wood used for casting.
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