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The Mena, Julia Mauser, Girum Solomon, Minasie Terefe
The Mena, Julia Mauser, Girum Solomon, Minasie Terefe
ATL
Honorable Mention
Inspired by the art of the Konso people of Ethiopia.
What inspired you to enter this special competition to create a modern architectural language for Africa?
Our Africa is a continent with unparalleled cultural richness and stories to be told. However, what we are witnessing today is only the smallest fraction of the vast potential we have got. So much resource just sitting by, time moving fast and we seem to be stuck in the present while the whole world speeding pass by us. Instead of laying back and complaining we took it upon ourselves to do something …
Northern Pafta, Gebrekidan G. Debre
Northern Pafta, Gebrekidan G. Debre
ATL
Honorable Mention
Inspired by the culture of the Konso people of Ethiopia.
What inspired you to enter this competition to create a modern architectural language for Africa?
For the past three years I was working on research called Ethioplugin Add-on Library at my campus (EiABC). There the objective, was digitalizing the heritages of Ethiopia such as furniture and fixtures, patterns and textures, construction details, so that they will be accessible by the professionals like interior designers, architects electronically. This made me familiar with working on cultural elements and extracting designed product out of them. I was excited (about the competition) …