Angelina Constanti

Oasis Co-op and Exchange Market, Nouakchott

The aim of the center is to empower and foster small local producers, local communities, women, people in trading and local food resources by creating a new local decentralised trade system that will provide a more democratic control, reorganisation of trade and create new relationships among producers and consumers by giving them the opportunity to sell, promote and exchange their products with other traders no matter their economical status.

Angella Nkurunziza Ndabakunda

The Pastoralists Urban Gateway

A gateway to the city from the inland, introducing pastoralists to the urban context. The project seeks to provide a community and vocational centre that increases the resilience of pastoralists and the people of Toujounine through grass-root initiatives as well as training opportunities that enables pastoralists to make use of animal waste, an under-utilised resource.

Carol Wong

Reformat Waste

A recycling center aims to build resilience among the vulnerable group by providing job opportunity, improving income of the local people by turning waste to resource and teaching them new techniques. Creating a more healthy environment and lifestyle by encouraging recycling and establish a more systematic waste management.

Chloe Loader

The Learning Neighbourhood

A learning and home environment for girls aged 7-12 to help empower them and grow as strong, indepedent and confident women. The school is a non traditional education style to enable a range of learning types and accommodate the different needs of the students. The built environment of the project responds directly to the risks faced in the climate, such as creating comfortable cool spaces and resilience from flooding, in addition to being socially resilient with the ability to adapt and change over time. The spaces are flexible with limited fixed furniture to accommodate social needs within the site, educational uses and also community participation (such as meetings and workshops).

Eleni Xenophontos

A Water centre where its aim will be to use alternative, more sustainable and cheaper ways for Nouakchott to use the water of the ocean as well as educate future employees of the centre and the public on how to reduce their chances of contracting water borne diseases as well as attracting future investors for the expansion of the project . The architectural vision of the project involves the division of various functions 1. A desalination plant 2. A greenhouse which uses seawater over porous carboard screens which cool and humidify the dry desert air to grow crops 3. A salt extraction area that produces salt to be sold to the public. 4. Algae cultivation ponds used for biofuels 5. Offices, Labs, education rooms as well as an outdoor station for refill of water tanks from locals. Furthermore, there will be a short-term micro factory, that produces portable desalination models to be used by poorer communities like those in El Mina District that have no access to pipes. then it will become a workshop for education purposes The project will incorporate a public utility space within the landscape where people are exposed to natural cycle of general water treatment in a relaced verdant setting that will also not only attract the locals but also investors that want to invest in the future development and growth of the centre and therefore the water infrastructure of Nouakchott.

Elizabeth Ryall

Unearthing Resilience in Nouakchott

A training, research and community centre for alternative construction, located in the rapidly developing Tarhil area of the city. The project unveils the potential of alternative construction in Nouakchott for resiliency in physical, economical, social and political dimensions. The design consists of a phased construction that demonstrates the spectrum of earthen materials whilst embracing advances in technology and scale of construction methods as the site develops over time. The key to the project is providing inspiring, practical and enironmentally comfortable spaces that enable active learning and social capital.

Mohd Shakirin Samsul Bahari

Nouakchott Innovation Hub for Clean Technology

A facility that encourage that encourages a self-sufficient and sustainable learning environment through the use of clean technology. With the site exposed to high volume of solar power, this gives the opportunity to create a resilience system where it allows to generate drinking water from the air and sun using hydropanel, vertical farming that promotes food sustainability. The project’s resilience strategy for the future growth of the immediate neighbourhood context is to create a mini grid for the future residential development adjacent to the site. The project aims to strengthen the local economy. The neighbourhood context will be connected to the hub. This will formulate a self-powered community which will be benefited as the energy operating costs will be reduced.

Nick Cassidy

Environmental Education Immersion Centre

Tera Kwong

Zanna Krzyzanowska

The Off-Grid Market, Nouakchott

The project aims to increase the physical, economic, and social resilience of the city and its community, by introducing a prototype for an off-grid, self-sufficient market in an underdeveloped peripheral area of the city. The market will reduce the neighbourhood’s reliance on insufficient government services, by utilising renewable technologies for the generation of water, electricity and Wi-Fi, into which the neighbourhoods will be able to plug in.