MAYUKWAYUKWA REFUGEE CAMP
A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CENTER IN ZAMBIA
Isabella Curcio Brouwenstyn, Juliano Zanardini, Lucas Holmes, Roberta Huçalo Walecki
Projeto realizado para o concurso internacional de arquitetura "MAYUKWAYUKWA REFUGEE CAMP", promovido pelo site Archstorming, em abril de 2022.
The design starts from the pre-existing building and the maximum preservation of the vegetation.
Two distinct areas conform the site, a clearing and another one with many trees that will be preserved. The news buildings will be positioned in the treeless area, defining a community yard layout.
The existing building integrates the new complex harmoniously relating with the news ones. The main building, where three news multipourpouse classrooms will allows the courses and workshops, was positioned in the west side of the lot and connected to the acess road.
An open collective kitchen and dining space are highlighted at opposite side of the yard and furnished with work benches designed to serve as a didactic space for culinary lessons or a normal kitchen, depending on the moment needs. Close to the preparation space, on the patio, raised beds for small vegetables and spices, within reach of immediate use.
Three sets of bedrooms - six rooms total - completes the perimeter to accommodates until six people per room with individuals beds and respective wardrobe niches.
Clay bricks mixed with concrete, manufactured with a manual press, will allows the production of main material on site.
Outside the complex, the planting of new trees will compose the landscape. That didactic display plantation will exposes the proposed planting system, known as Agroforestry Systems. The corral is positioned in the east side, at the backyard of the lot.
The Agroforestry System is a planting technique that organizes the vegetation in north-south oriented rows, interspersing different types of plants.
Each row has species with different sizes and characteristics, so that rows of native trees are interspersed with rows of palm trees and rows of shrub or forage vegetation. Large trees provide protection and wind regulation for smaller plants, while species mixing reduces pest activity.
This form of agricultural production allows the preservation of native vegetation in a sustainable way with the production of food.
The diversity of agrocultures promotes the recovery of degraded soils or the enrichment of poor soils and, in the long term, provides greater productivity.
