Handmade House Ghana


2015
Abetenim, Ghana


Handmade House Ghana was a competition Louis won during his undergraduate studies. Over a six month workshop, he designed and built the Handmade House with a group of local workers and international volunteers.

The aim of this workshop was to challenge the stigma of using earth as a construction material in the rural village of Abetenim, Ghana. The built project formed a concrete free ‘Poured Earth’ house using a series of reusable softwood formworks.


Working hand in hand with KNUST, the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, we adopted current concerns with the hybridisation between earth and cement based construction today to create not just a single building, but an idea that could be adopted and built upon by all those who worked on the scheme.






































 



































   
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