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An American architecture student's journey through four countries in West Africa, documented by photoraphs and drawings.
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a i a c h a r l o t t etraveling fellowship 2009antonio nevada martinez
west afriq
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so improvisation began upon arrival.
west afriq
a chronological account of an american student’s attempt to link the cultural and environmental context of four west african countries to the spectrum of architectural efficiency.
i originally wanted to evaluate the architectural education of each country, as a contextual resource, but ghana was on break, nigeria was on strike.
eastern america to western africa.
distance in miles ..................15,136
air mileage.............................12,333road mileage............................2,803pounds of CO2..........................5,731 e
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caamerican and transatlantic mileage
CO2 pounds by road.....................................474 charlotte to pittsburgh.............397pittsburgh to buffalo.................105
CO2 pounds by air.................................. .. 1,158 buffalo to chicago......................450chicago to new york..................715new york to casblanca...........3603
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african and transaharan mileageCO2 pounds by road.....................................507 accra to kumasi(x2)................ 280kumasi to nkwantakese(x2)...100 accra to hohoe...........................150hohoe to wli....................................9yikpe to kpalime..........................27kpalime to lome...........................75lome to aneho...............................25aneho to ouidah...........................42ouidah to cotonou........................20cotonou to lagos...........................75lagos to ibadan(x2)...................152ibadan to osogbo(x2)..................55ibadan to oyo(x2)........................32lagos to eredo sungbo(x2)..........28
CO2 pounds by air.................................. ....739 casablanca to accra.................1981
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seme, lagos, victoria island, ibadan, 19 daysoyo, ijebu ode, osogbo, ife, abuja (+30)
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aadum, kumasiincomplete and inhabitedfrom the balcony of our hostel one could identify 15 projects that had been started and at least the first floor was inhabited. Even finished buildings have rebar shooting from the roof, indicative of growth expectations.
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aspanco orphanage, nkwantakeseincomplete and inhabitednext, we stayed in a recently completed orphanage built by an american, mike wagner, next to an incomplete campus.
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spanco orphanage, nkwantakeseto the cocoa grovesenior secondary schoolrabbit cagesburn/trash holesclothes linesjunior secondary schoolorphanagesummer hutsgarden
poly tanks (water)security shackwall
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spanco orphanage, nkwantakese,ghana
august 20071st floor construction
photo: Mike Wagner
december 2007second floor construction
photo: Mike Wagner
july 2009water catchment system
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building and roads research institute, fumasua,ghana
Mark Bediako
chemical engineer who taught me all about cement pozzolanas, and after a brief awkwardness, became our friend .
the BRRI is developing solutions to the saline environment of ghana, which causes cracking in concrete. by ading a boxite byproduct or clay pozzolana, one can decrease the cost of construction, thus responding to ghana’s paradigm shift. a locally developed solution from the abundatnt ghana clay in response to the problem of imported construction methods and materials.
building and roads research institute, clay pozzolanaprocessing
raw clay dug from BRRI site
heated to 700 degrees centigrade and tumbled
the resulting pozzolana hs the consistency of cement and replaces the lime element
to reduce CO2 and cost, while making the mixture more dense .
generall, CMU can be 50/50, cast on site 30/70 mix ratio to portland
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