Urko Sanchez Architects SOS Children´s Village in Tadjourah, Djibouti Architecture for Social Gain Awards 2015 01 Setting out Urban regeneration & environmental development Client´s brief Concept design To design and build a small village compiling 15 houses where to run family- strengthening programmes which aim to identify the most vulnerable families. To create a place where children who cannot stay with their families, can be looked after by the SOS mothers in their family-based care. To design and built as well in a near-by plot a kindergarten where pre-schoolers can be looked after and encouraged to develop confidently. With these conditions in mind, we decided that building the homes in a very local way – narrow streets that would shade one another, providing natural ventilation and corridors of wind flow – was the right way to go. In the end, what we did was develop and design a small village with open, pedestrian-only streets and playing fields for children and teenagers, almost an internal playground of gingerbread-house elements and slides. The houses in this village are closed to the outside; they look inwards, protecting residents from the elements, while providing privacy and excellent ventilation. Elevation Built spaces Streets Location & weather conditions TADJOURAH, WEATHER INFORMATION WIND DATA: _ Dominant Wind Direction: East (West on July and August) _ Average Wind Speed: 15km/h _ Average Wind probability: 25% _ Max. Wind Speed: 20,5km/h (July and August) _Max. Wind Prob. : 53% (July and August) TEMPERATURE DATA: _ Average Temperature: 32ºC _ Max. Temperature: 46ºC _ Min. Temperature: 20,1ºC HUMIDITY DATA: _ Average Humidity: 63% _ Max. Humidity: 90% _ Min. Humidity: 19% _ Average Precipitation: 4mm _ Max. Precipitation: 14,2mm _ Min. Precipitation: 0mm The Republic of Djibouti is located on the Horn of Africa and suffers from the persistent droughts and famines associated with the area. Our most serious challenge here: a very small plot designated with a 15 houses requirement. Located in Tadjourah, across the bay from Djibouti, the development was located on a site known for one of the hottest temperatures on earth. Due to the extreme weather conditions in Djibouti it was essential, even before getting into the concept of the project, to do a deep research on the weather conditions. The research focused specially on winds and shades, establishing a few guidelines to follow during the process of design, such as: -Sun protection -Maximize the wind flow to allow cross ventilation Tadjourah from the sea Sunllight & shades study January June
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Urko Sanchez Architects
SOS Children´s Village in Tadjourah, Djibouti
Architecture for Social GainAwards 2015
01Setting out
Urban regeneration & environmental development
Client s brief Concept design
To design and build a small village compiling 15 houses where to run family-strengthening programmes which aim to identify the most vulnerable families.
To create a place where children who cannot stay with their families, can be looked after by the SOS mothers in their family-based care. To design and built as well in a near-by plot a kindergarten where pre-schoolers can be looked after and encouraged to develop confidently.
With these conditions in mind, we decided that building the homes in a very local way – narrow streets that would shade one another, providing natural ventilation and corridors of wind flow – was the right way to go.
In the end, what we did was develop and design a small village with open, pedestrian-only streets and playing fields for children and teenagers, almost an internal playground of gingerbread-house elements and slides. The houses in this village are closed to the outside; they look inwards, protecting residents from the elements, while providing privacy and excellent ventilation.
Elevation
Built spaces Streets
Location & weather conditionsTADJOURAH, WEATHER INFORMATION
WIND DATA:
_ Dominant Wind Direction: East (West on July and August)_ Average Wind Speed: 15km/h _ Average Wind probability: 25%_ Max. Wind Speed: 20,5km/h (July and August)_Max. Wind Prob. : 53% (July and August)
TEMPERATURE DATA:
_ Average Temperature: 32ºC _ Max. Temperature: 46ºC_ Min. Temperature: 20,1ºC
HUMIDITY DATA:
_ Average Humidity: 63% _ Max. Humidity: 90%_ Min. Humidity: 19%
_ Average Precipitation: 4mm _ Max. Precipitation: 14,2mm_ Min. Precipitation: 0mm
The Republic of Djibouti is located on the Horn of Africa and suffers from the persistent droughts and famines associated with the area.
Our most serious challenge here: a very small plot designated with a 15 houses requirement. Located in Tadjourah, across the bay from Djibouti, the development was located on a site known for one of the hottest temperatures on earth.
Due to the extreme weather conditions in Djibouti it was essential, even before getting into the concept of the project, to do a deep research on the weather conditions. The research focused specially on winds and shades, establishing a few guidelines to follow during the process of design, such as:-Sun protection-Maximize the wind flow to allow cross ventilation
Tadjourah from the sea
Sunllight & shades studyJanuary June
Urko Sanchez Architects
SOS Children´s Village in Tadjourah, Djibouti
Architecture for Social GainAwards 2015
02The human scale
A building designed for its users
Cross Section
Ground floor
First floor
Walking around the village shows a sequence of spaces where daily activities go on in between courtyards, mushrabiyas that allow for ventilation and sun protection and vegetation integrated in the open spaces.The mix of enclosed, open, semi-open, ventilated, private courtyards etc allows for each house to have its own privacy as well as a rich community life.
Cross section
Sequence of spacesPlans ans sections
Urko Sanchez Architects
SOS Children´s Village in Tadjourah, Djibouti
Architecture for Social GainAwards 2015
03Empowering the connection of the environment with the building and its inhabitants
The sequence of patios and courtyards empower outdoors activities such as playing, cooking, reading, chatting... preserving the traditional outdoors way of living of the community.
Ventilation chimneys
Courtyards, indoors-outdoors spaces with integrated vegetation
Construction details
General overview
The construction was made using locally available materials as well as emulating the traditional architecture of narrow streets and lattices which allow for natural ventilation.
A singular addition was made to the conventional architecture: ventilation chimneys that allow for hot air inside the houses to go up through them, creating a constant airflow inside the houses all day long.
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