happily ever after...
A medina for children designed according to extreme weather conditions and community traditions.
![SOS Children's Village Tadjourah, Djibouti](https://magarticles.magzter.com/articles/1892/193206/58367d0dc30ee/Sos-Childrens-Village-Tadjourah-Djibouti.jpg)
design brief and aims
The brief was to design a residential compound of 15 houses for SOS Kinderdorf, where they could run their family-strengthening programmes in Djibouti, located in the Horn of Africa, which suffers from persistent droughts and severe scarcities.
how this was accomplished
The architects studied their client’s needs and learnt about SOS systems, about the community where the project would take place, their nomadic traditions and the extreme climate of the region. They then searched for traditional housing references in similar cultural and climatic environments and finally decided to design a ‘Medina’ with certain singularities:
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