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Lakou Dwelling
STATUS
Concept
SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
BUDGET
$50K - 100K
Competition Shortlisted
(Top 10 Candidates) for ARCHIVE Institute’s Health and Housing For Haiti Design and Build Competition.
The project title ‘Lakou’ means a network of people that live and share responsibility in their neighbourhood. This prototype seeks to create healthy homes for Aid's suffers to mitigate the transmition of tuberculosis in St.Marc, Haiti.
Construction is initiated by the community for the community, training locals in new
construction techniques with locally sources renewable materials.
The community spirt is initiated by linking together the lawns, which Haitians see as an extension to their home. The yard represents the transition layer of community, linking each property to the next through an easy to pass through membrane. Most activities take place outside of the structure of the house itself. Large shaded areas seek to offer protection from the sun and rain.
Encouraging the Aids suffers to continue to interact with the outdoors. The house mealy serves as storage, protection from the rain and as a place to sleep. The space defined by the house is the shadow it casts, not its wall boundaries.
A central internal courtyard creates a cool breezy centre piece to the home, linking the outdoors to the indoors. Folding doors open up to connect the lounge and kitchen to the central courtyard so to create transparent walls, which can be opened and closed depending on the weather. This enables an open plan life styles that revolves around the kitchen. The central courtyard is protected from the sun, light is diffused through dangling panels of bamboo ends. Easily customisable houses are left white for the owners to be free to slap their own identity onto the property. They can be finished with various bright and multi coloured paints, to give a sense of individualisation and ownership to the property. Helping to instil confidence, this may have been lost after poorly being treated by society due to the stigma attached to having AID’s.
(Top 10 Candidates) for ARCHIVE Institute’s Health and Housing For Haiti Design and Build Competition.
The project title ‘Lakou’ means a network of people that live and share responsibility in their neighbourhood. This prototype seeks to create healthy homes for Aid's suffers to mitigate the transmition of tuberculosis in St.Marc, Haiti.
Construction is initiated by the community for the community, training locals in new
construction techniques with locally sources renewable materials.
The community spirt is initiated by linking together the lawns, which Haitians see as an extension to their home. The yard represents the transition layer of community, linking each property to the next through an easy to pass through membrane. Most activities take place outside of the structure of the house itself. Large shaded areas seek to offer protection from the sun and rain.
Encouraging the Aids suffers to continue to interact with the outdoors. The house mealy serves as storage, protection from the rain and as a place to sleep. The space defined by the house is the shadow it casts, not its wall boundaries.
A central internal courtyard creates a cool breezy centre piece to the home, linking the outdoors to the indoors. Folding doors open up to connect the lounge and kitchen to the central courtyard so to create transparent walls, which can be opened and closed depending on the weather. This enables an open plan life styles that revolves around the kitchen. The central courtyard is protected from the sun, light is diffused through dangling panels of bamboo ends. Easily customisable houses are left white for the owners to be free to slap their own identity onto the property. They can be finished with various bright and multi coloured paints, to give a sense of individualisation and ownership to the property. Helping to instil confidence, this may have been lost after poorly being treated by society due to the stigma attached to having AID’s.
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