A Home for Advan FC
Handbook for a Madagascan Building with Global Adaptability
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Beschreibung
Manual for collaborative development-aid and self-empowerment in construction
The new education center of Advan FC on the island of Madagascar is a prime example of a bottom-up development-aid project based on pragmatism and with the goal of self-empowerment. When Viktor Bänziger, who runs a bar in the heart of Zurich, visited Madagascar as a tourist in 2015, he was struck by the severe poverty and difficult living conditions of the local population and decided to act. In close collaboration with Zurich-based architect Nele Dechmann and the president of Advan FC, Titus Solohery Andriamananjara, the project for a new soccer field and surrounding buildings was developed. The complex, which is soundly based on local building knowledge and construction methods, gives local children the opportunity to develop their soccer skills and, more importantly, to receive minimal reading and writing lessons after training and to have meals together. The remote location in Madagascar’s mountains and the tight budget suggested a simple typology that conveys a common architectural language despite the different uses of individual buildings. A key part of the entire concept is a simple manual for the actual construction that leaves many decisions and responsibilities to the local community.
Documenting the architecture of Advan FC’s education center and its construction process in rich detail through photographs and plans, this book tells the story of an extraordinary participative undertaking of people originating from deeply differing cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. It introduces a model of potentially universal usage anywhere in the world in which the continuous exchange of knowledge between a project’s participants demonstrates an inspiring alternative to conventional international collaborations.
- Erzählt die Geschichte eines hervorragenden «bottom-up» Entwicklungsprojekts, das auf einem pragmatischen Ansatz und dem Ziel der Selbstermächtigung zu qualitätvollem, den lokalen Bedürfnissen gerechtem Bauen beruht
- Dokumentiert die Architektur und den Bauprozess der Trainings- und Schulanlage für den FC Advan in den Bergen Madagaskars
- Das Projekt hat Modellcharakter für derartige Anlagen überall auf der Welt
- Der kontinuierliche Austausch von Wissen zwischen den Projektbeteiligten in Madagaskar und der Schweiz zeigt eine inspirierende Alternative zu den üblichen Abläufen internationaler Hilfsprojekte
- Tells the story of a prime example of bottom-up development-aid based on pragmatism and with the goal of self-empowerment in construction
- Documents the architecture and construction process of Advan FC’s education center in Madagascar’s mountain region
- The continuous exchange of knowledge between this project’s participants, originating from deeply differing cultural and socio-economic backgrounds
- Demonstrates an inspiring alternative to conventional international collaborations
Autor*in
Nele Dechmann
Themen in »A Home for Advan FC«
Advan Lesson Manual School Schule Advan FC Football Fussball Handbuch Bauprojekt Madagascar Madagaskar Unterricht Architektur Archtecture