Affordable Housing Prototypes in Maputo

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Casas Melhoradas is a collaboration between the Department of Human Settlements at the The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation, Faculdade de Arquitectura e Planeamento Físico at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, The Mozambican NGO Estamos and the Danish branch of Architects without Borders.
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Mozambique is located in Southeast Africa and is one of the poorest countries in the world. The capital, Maputo, is characterized by urban development without effective planning, without enforcement of regulations, without appropriate infrastructure provisions and plagued by urban sprawl. All this causes increased infrastructure deficit, decreased mobility, loss of farmland and decreased access to employment, health and education systems.