BUSAJO CAMPUS 06

Team: Andre Benaim Studio di Architettura

New construction, Ethiopia, 2017-2018

Busajo Campus is a territorial structure that offers hospitality, advice and training to street children and young people of Soddo, a medium-sized city in the central southern part of Ethiopia. The activities of the Campus, in constant connection with the government authorities, have as their purpose to reduce the number of children living in the streets and the disturbing phenomenon of female child prostitution.

Soddo is a small village in Ethiopia, Africa where we designed a Campus for abandoned children. The Campus is consisted of 9 building complexes and sport fields in order to cover its needs.

Of the 9 above mentioned buildings, two are created in order to acommodate the children and the volunteers working in the capus fields, one to concentrate all the common spaces and function of the whole campus and the others are used as offices for the campus heads and the secondary needs.

The materials used in the construction are simple and easy to be found in the area of Busajo. The main construction is made of concrete blocks and metal whle the facade secondary skeleton created as shader is made of African wood.