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Mbesese Build: An Experimental Experience (Same (Tanzania, Africa) Polytechnic College, Thomas Fowler Iv, Kevin Dong
Mbesese Build: An Experimental Experience (Same (Tanzania, Africa) Polytechnic College, Thomas Fowler Iv, Kevin Dong
Thomas Fowler IV, DPACSA, FAIA
The Project
Communities in East Africa are in need of supplemental and diversified tertiary educational opportunities to increase humancapitalandreducetheseverelevels ofpovertythatareendemicintheregion.TheSame’PolytechnicCollege is a proposed vocational training institution to be established in the Kilimanjaro Region of the United Republic of Tanzania. The college is the pilot project ofa US registered charitable organization whose primary purpose is to improve quality of life for rural communities in East Africa. The non-profit has partnered with design firms and the students and faculty of The University to develop a framework around which the campus will develop. The objective is to plan for orderly campus growth by …
Tanzania Collaboratory 2014-2017, Thomas Fowler Iv
Tanzania Collaboratory 2014-2017, Thomas Fowler Iv
Thomas Fowler IV, DPACSA, FAIA
The work in this publication is a summary of ongoing work that started in 2014, when architecture and architectural
engineering students starting developing the master plan for the proposed Polytechnic University in Samé, Tanzania, Africa, working directly with ARUP’s David Lambert and the MBESESE Initiative. Since this time we have had 60 plus graduate and undergraduate students who have provided research and design input into the development of this project.
This work from 2014 – 2017 provides an update to the master plan and building designs for the Polytechnic University, along with proposed hotel designs have been developed for another …