University of Bambey: Looking for Shade and Water - urbanNext, December 04, 2019. - 702 words.

africanCities, IDOM, Low Density, Project, Technology and fabrication

African Cities, African identity, Architecture&climate, Architecture&environment, Bambey, Cultural Facility, Designing Climate, Educational Building, Efficiency, Energy consumption, Environment, Extreme environments, Performative Envelope, Project, Rain Water Harvesting, Senegal, Solar radiation, Urban infrastructure, Ventilation, Waste management, Water recycling

Photography: Francesco Pinton


In Senegal, shade and water are everything. This lecture-room block project, a close relative of another project in Gaston Berger, San Luis, which was commissioned by the Ministry of Education and the World Bank, is set in the city of Bambey, located 120 km west of Dakar.

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Architecture Project University-design Bambey, Senegal Senegal