About the project
The publication "Nursey", "Handicraft" and "Lapa" documents three of eight works from the Integrated Project / Integrated Module from the winter semester 2021/22.
The topic of the project was the conception of training centers -vocational labs- for young people on a farm in Namibia. The basis for this was the plan to implement a joint project as part of an international cooperation with local people, students and lecturers from NUST (Namibia University of Science and Technology) and a local NGO.
The designs of the integrated project / integrated module on the Nelly Farm in Omatako, Namibia include the Lapa in the center of the farm, workshops for craftsmanship, wood and metal processing, training and seminar rooms, the nursery with cultivation areas and hydroponics plant, a teaching kitchen with dining room and the bakery with café.
The buildings are planned as simple, robust and at the same time flexible structures in regional construction and can be further developed, modified and dismantled independently by the future users.
The seminar was partially accompanied by an intercultural workshop.
Following the course in April 2022, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Reinhild Schultz-Fölsing and I traveled to South Africa and Namibia to activate existing collaborations with our partner universities and initiate new ones. Another aim was to facilitate more closely networked cooperation in teaching and research and to implement the specific project, which is being funded by the Sto Foundation, as a 1:1 project.
The exhibition of the works took place under the title: "A place to learn - A place to grow" in June 2022 in the Faculty of Architecture.
