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SIDAREC, Nairobi, Kenya, Judged as Overall Site Winner of the 2007 AMD Open Architecture Challenge
The Global Studio LLC's “Community Technology Hub” for SIDAREC Wins Overall Design Competition Award
AMD and Architecture for Humanity (AFH) have announced the winning locations and architectural design submissions in the 2007 AMD Open Architecture Challenge. The overall winning design, to be built in Nairobi, Kenya, for Slums Information Development and Resource Centres (SIDAREC), is based on the submission by The Global Studio LLC, an architectural team from Seattle, WA, USA.
Both SIDAREC and The Global Studio were officially announced winners during the 50x15 Africa Partner Summit in Cape Town, South Africa on June 3, 2008.
The new SIDERAC community center will feature an Internet Café, public walk-up computers, a recording studio, and a dedicated classroom for computer-based job skills. Technology by AMD and collaborator companies will also be provided for the health clinic on the property.
In addition to the 2007 AMD Open Architecture Challenge overall winners SIDAREC and Global Studio, winning locations and designs were chosen for two regional sites: in South America (Ecuador), The Kallari Association; In Asia (Sanfe Bagar, Nepal), Nyaya Health.
About the 2007 AMD Open Architecture Challenge
The Open Architecture Challenge was an open, international design competition to develop not one but many solutions for building sustainable, multi-purpose, low-cost technology facilities for those who need them most. Three community partners were selected and each site posed a unique set of design constraints and opportunities. While the needs of each client were unique, the hurdles they face in embracing technology to offer access to education, healthcare and the global marketplace are shared by millions of people in communities all over the world.
AMD's Role in the Challenge
In designing the structure for a digital inclusion center, several key areas need to be considered in respect to the technology used and the people welcomed to use it. AMD has a proven methodology for deploying technology in high growth regions that includes a unique ecosystem approach consisting of the following areas: power, connectivity, devices, content, financing, expertise, and structure design.
AMD and 50x15 work with AFH to define the technology needs and requirements that should be considered when building a technology center based on our proven learning lab methodology. This includes all regional considerations such as power, environmental conditions, connectivity, devices, wiring, access to communications, security, and personal comfort. In addition, 50x15 aims to provide a technology expert to consult with the architects and community leaders to ensure that technology selected will best serve the needs of the community.
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Overall Site & Design Winners
Africa
Community Partner: SIDAREC, Nairobi, Kenya
Challenge: Empower the youth of Mukuru Kwa Njenga, an informal slum settlement of 250,000, to connect with other youth and create positive change in their community by building a technology media center and recording studio.
Design Winner: Entrant #1248
Design Team: The Global Studio, LLC
Team Members: Ashley Waldron, Matthew Sullivan, Geoff Piper, Stephanie Ingram
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Biography:
Stephanie Ingram, Geoff Piper, Matthew Sullivan, and Ashley Waldron are The Global Studio. They are architectural designers living in Seattle, Washington. Collectively they have over twenty years of architectural design and construction experience, both locally and abroad. They have traveled extensively and have worked with communities around the world to improve their built environments. Design projects include work with communities in Mexico, Kenya, Uganda, Botswana, and Sri Lanka. Design-build projects include work with communities in Mexico, India, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Cuba, and Haiti, as well as with the Sioux in South Dakota. Their international experience includes the design of schools, libraries, community centers, orphanages and community master plans. In 2003, Geoff, Matthew and Jamie Fleming received an AIA Seattle Citation Award for the design of a village community center in western Kenya for their thesis projects.
Stephanie and Geoff are partners at FiveDot/DesignBuild. Stephanie is a licensed architect also working at Jones and Jones Architects and Landscape Architects. Matthew is a project architect at Integrus Architecture, and Ashley is a project architect at Johnson Architecture and Planning. Stephanie, Geoff and Matthew received their Masters of Architecture from the University of Washington in 2002. Ashley received her Bachelors of Architecture from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in 2004.
For more information on The Global Studio, click here.
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Regional Sites & Design Winners
South America
Community Partner: Kallari Association, Napo Province, Ecuador
Challenge: Connect a cooperative of indigenous chocolate producers and artisans in the Ecuadorian Amazon with the global marketplace by building a fair trade exchange, chocolate production center and satellite rural technology points.
Design Winner: Entrant #1340
Design Team: ChunSheh Tao, Heather Worrell, Igor Taskov
Location: Indianapolis, IN, USA & Nis, Serbia
Biography:
ChunSheh Teo
Arriving in Indianapolis via Malaysia, France, and Chicago, ChunSheh Teo is passionate in communicating sustainable design and has participated in many and has won several national and international design competitions.
Heather Worrell
Arriving in Indianapolis via Denver, St. Louis, Dallas, and Italy, Heather Worrell has worked on many project types, from small interiors to airports, and with many unique clients. Heather is a champion for sustainable design and living.
Igor Taskov
Arriving in Indianapolis via Serbia and Malta, Igor Taskov brings his experience in Mediterranean, Eastern, and Western culture to all his design work. Igor is also accomplished at computer modeling and rendering.
Coming together by various routes, these three designers were able lend the project their own expertise and flair. Seeking out more involvement in the OAN, Heather brought a team together that had the design ability and desire to create a sustainable project for a community in need.
The team met at RATIO Architects' Indy Studio, an award winning design and planning firm. RATIO Architects (www.RATIOArchitects.com) has a continuing focus on sustainable design in all building types.
Asia
Community Partner: Nyaya Health, Sanfe Bagar, Nepal
Challenge: Enable families in a remote rural area of Nepal, where there is only one doctor for a population of 250,000, to access health care from top physicians and medical professionals all over the world by building a tele-medicine center.
Design Winner: Entrant #1740
Design Team: MaxFordham LLP + Nick Lawrence
Team Members: Gwilym Still, Nick Lawrence, David Hawkins, Bertie Dixon, Thomas Bailess
Location: London, UK
Biography:
The AMD Open Architecture Challenge was undertaken by a multidisciplinary group of enthusiastic young professionals. A team at Max Fordham LLP entered into association with Nick Lawrence for architectural services and additional design input.
Max Fordham LLP are consulting engineers designing services for both individual buildings in a wide range of sectors and for urban masterplanning and infrastructure. Their main objective is to create healthy, enjoyable, low-energy, and sustainable environments where individuals can develop their maximum potential.
The practice was set up forty years ago with the intention of applying the same detailed attention to the design of services that architects apply to buildings. As a result, Max Fordham LLP design services that are integral to the building rather than separate, specialist installations.
Nick Lawrence has over nine years' professional experience working on a broad range of projects for A&Q Partnership Ltd architects. With a history in engineering prior to his architectural qualifications he was keen to work with employees and friends at Max Fordham LLP sharing their ethos of sustainable design.
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