Kahere Poultry Farming School - Aga Khan Award for Architecture
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Kahere Poultry Farming School

Kahere Poultry Farming School
 Location: Koliagbe, Guinea (West Africa)
Architect: Heikkinen-Komonen Architects
Client: Centre Avicole Kahere / Bachir Diallo
Completed: 2000
Site size: 3'800 m²

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Kahere Poultry Farming School Project Brief

A training centre for poultry farmers, divided into three buildings made of stabilised earth bricks. A classroom for twelve students and a teacher's office, student's dormitory and a teacher's house are grouped around a square courtyard to create an educational community.

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  • View south looking at the covered portico of the school and the façade of the teacher's quarters

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  • Front façade of the classroom building

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  • View along side the classroom to the teacher's block

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  • Model of the project showing the relationship of the buildings to the courtyard

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  • View north to the teachers block

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  • View of the L-shape teachers block

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  • View of the L-shape teachers block made from compressed earth block

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