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❕Event Alert❕

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❕Wednesday 23/02/22 at 18:00 ❕

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It’s and this week we are in….

Colombia 🇨🇴

The simplicity of Bahareque construction has made it an accessible form of accessible architecture. Its construction is entirely dependent on its region and this makes it a highly resourceful method.

Have you ever seen anything like it?

Text adapted from ArchDaily and “Design Guide for Engineered Bahareque Housing” by Kamiski, Lawrence and Trujillo

Images via DenkZeit and diagram adapted from “Design Guide for Engineered Bahareque Housing”

Congratulations to for winning the 2021 International Prize!

Check out this incredible advancement in material technology by and .

Have you seen anything like it?

Source: Architectural Digest

❕Event Alert❕

We are speaking at Timber Development UK’s talk on timber in tomorrow’s built environment.

The event is tomorrow on 18th January between 18.30 and 20.00 GMT

Tickets available on eventbrite!

In December, it was announced that Pritzker Laureate B.V Doshi would be awared the RIBA Gold Medal.

Check out some of his projects you might not have seen!

How to get a better idea of a firm’s promotional ethics.

This does not represent all firms, however, it is aimed at giving more representative insight into inclusivity at firms.

As 2021 comes to an end, DecolonsieArchitecture would like to take this opportunity to look back on some of the highlights this year 👉🏻👉🏻

We are a group of passionate and driven students and young professionals who are looking to challenge the norms through researching and preaching methods to provide diverse education within the architectural field.

Thank you for all the support for DA. See you next year! #2022

Around DA World 🌎 The area of Mali inhabited by the Dogon people lies near the city of Bandiagara, and the Bandiagara escarpment, a fantastic, natural cliff (and a Unesco World Heritage Site), runs for 150km through its heart.

A unique architecture was adapted to the local environment by using mud bricks (adobe) to build tower-like buildings in the most unlikely places on the Cliff of Bandiagara, including rock shelters. Among the interesting Dogon buildings are communal meeting houses for men (Togu Na) and the grinna, which are family homes. These are two story building with separate areas for men and women. There are also two types of granaries - ‘male’ granaries with a pointed roof is where seeds are stored, and ‘female’ granaries (without points) are where the women of this society (who are economically independent from their husbands), store their personal belongings.

Image credit: Emma Jacobs
Text adapted from walkopedia and ancient origins

Spotlight: Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows

Tumpa was the first to be selected on the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Rising Star Cohort in 2017, for her work with the charity and for her architectural projects that successfully tackled complex social issues faced by the disadvantaged community of the Rajapur village. This transformative project will be a template that can be used in many rural communities across the Indian sub-continent.

COP26 Glasgow ends with an agreement and pledges. As we ponder, ‘did COP26 deliver?’ Let’s take a look at existing cities around the world, undergoing rapid urbanisation with eyes shut on context and identity.

A few months ago, DA had the honour of speaking at the Architecture Fringe 2021. We were the panellists at the closing event - named Towards COP26  - discussing environmentalism and addressing the inequality of actions needed to be taken by countries towards achieving carbon neutrality. Our discussion circled the notion of racial intersectionality in environmental degradation. The effects of blanket ‘zero-carbon’ techniques across the world, regardless of their contextual specificity, have in fact exacerbated the climate crisis in certain countries - more specifically, tropical, desert and humid climate countries, some of which are also developing, ‘third-world’ countries. 

Around da world: With respect to climate and sun path, the Batak House’s unique roof form acts as an effective shading system, along with a north-south buidinng orientation used to decrease solar gain. Elevated flooring prevents excess humidity from entering the structure and mitigate flood damage during wet season.

❕We are going to be on Radio ❕

We have received an amazing opportunity to take part in this amazing initiative and our two committee members and will be representing DA at the event.

When: 25th November 10-11am

We will be in conversation with RIBA Director of Inclusion Marsha Ramroop, Dr Corinne Fowler and Dr Neal Shasore.

Sign up now on eventbrite and see you there!

❕We are going to be on Radio ❕

We have received an amazing opportunity to take part in this amazing initiative and our two committee members and will be representing DA at the event.

When: 25th November 10-11am

We will be in conversation with RIBA Director of Inclusion Marsha Ramroop, Dr Corinne Fowler and Dr Neal Shasore.

Sign up now and see you there!

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EVENT ALERT! 🛎 We are beyond honored to be participating and sharing our work at Cardiff University's first Decolonisation Forum Decolonising Higher Education Forum at Cardiff University.

We will be speaking along:

🌟Dr Katie Natanel (IAIS) and Riadh Ghemmour (GSE) from Exeter Decolonising Network.

🌟Dr Lucy Ansley, Dr Hardeep Basra, and Professor Richard Hall from Decolonising De MontFort University (Decolonising DMU).

🌟Adnan Shafi and Arwa Al-Mubaddel from Cardiff University.

📆We hope you can join us, from 10:00-13:00 (BST) Nov 5, 2021

Registration required, please scan the QR code.

This particular type of dwelling is from the Yanomami Tribe, located in both southern Venezuela and northern Brazil.

Some can house up to 400 people. The central area isused for activities such as rituals, feasts, and games. Each family has its own hearth where food is prepared and cooked during the day. At night, hammocks are slung near the fire, which is stoked allnight to keep people warm.

Building plan and section © Norbert Schoenauer

Text adapted from archeyes.com

It’s and this week we are in….

Iran 🇮🇷

The incredible Yakhchal structures are literal freezers in the desert and can store enormous amounts of ice in the summer months.

Have you ever seen anything like it?

Text adapted from and eartharchitecture.org

Images via misfits’ architecture, Max Fordham and Quintin Lake Photography

Earlier this year we have had the honor to participate in Architecture Fringe 2021, discussing the intersectional reality of climate crisis and the transformative action required to tackle the global emergency. Climate change affects all lives, but the extent of change and harm varies significantly according to geography and identity.
 
The built environment is the largest source of the world’s carbon emissions, emitting at least 40% of total carbon emissions. As COP26 is due to start in a few days, we believe we are at a pivotal point to make a change.

MILD SPOILERS!!

Special spotlight ❕The incredible artistic director of Chae Kyung-Sun!

Today we take a look at the design of the sets of Squid Game and their symbolism. As with all spotlights, let’s continue to support creative talent from across the globe.

Some text adapted from koreajoongangdaily.joins.com

Around da world- Cameroon. The traditional dwellings of the Musgum tribe in Cameroon consisted of sun-dried mud huts of a shell shape. Each domestic structure (also called “obus”, or “beehive type”) was 3 to 9m high, needed 6 months to be built out of mud, thatch, water and simple tools and was ornamented by many inverted V’s or straight groove lines which provided foothold during construction and maintenance, structural buttress and facilitate the draining of rainwaters.

Text adapted from socks-studio.com

‘I come from India, I do not want to sell a romantic icon of architecture for the poor, the ‘let ́s go back to nature thing’ with coconut thatch huts and so on.’

Our spotlight shines on Anupama Kundoo from , whom have recently been awarded the prestigious 2021 RIBA Charles Jencks Award.

Project Feature: the Volontariat Home for Homeless Children, 2008.

Project Image by Sonja Winkler

Check it out at ribaj.com


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Around DA World - Pigeon Towers, located throughout Iran.

This vernacular housing type was designed not for humans but for pigeons!

Born mostly out of the need to harvest of pigeon p**p (yes, that’s right, they are rich in nitrogen) to use as fertilisers in the 16th to 17th century in Iran, these mud brick structures are proven to be efficient in the use of material and space as each can hold up to 14,000 pigeons at once.

Nowadays, as most farmers use artificial fertilisers, pigeons houses are no longer needed and the architecture itself, facing extinction.

Join our project ! Tag us in vernacular architecture from countries

Text adapted from socks-studio.com

Welcome back to Technology Tuesday!

Today we revisit our previous trip to China and the beauty of Dougong Brackets.

Where shall we go next?


Text adapted from multimedia.scmp.com

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Some months ago, we put out a short comparison between the reactions to the Al Aqsa Mosque attacks and the Notre Dame fire.

Today, we have had the opportunity to turn this into a detailed think piece in the .

Please check it out at ribaj.com

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It’s official - coming this year!