Ghana Innovation Farm
Typology: Industrial Architecture
Organiser: Young Architects Competition and Manni Group
Site: Ghana, West Africa
Year: 2022
The project draws inspiration from compound houses, four single-room houses surrounding a central courtyard.
Similarly, this farm masterplan organises its four buildings around a forest garden and central pond, offering a single entrance and exit for the visitors of the centre.
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"Learning from the past" is the simple message of Ghana’s innovative farms. As such, the theme is celebrated in the design of playful façades which employ cut-out symbols in an iconic display to celebrate the roots of golden African agriculture.
These symbols are cut out from the innovative customised ISOPAN ADDWIND panel. The cut-outs are then repurposed as tables and chairs for the outdoor areas. Further, the building employs mud, local timber, the MANNI Sipre structural steelwork and a modular thatched roof.
The architecture aims to provide a precedent that can be replicated for future constructions, in order to become in the future the past example from which we want to learn from.
