Nella Repubblica del Benin – Africa centro occidentale – in un’area rurale 30 km a nord della costa atlantica, lungo la strada sterrata che collega la città di Abomey Calavi all’autostrada RNIE 2, convivono a stretto contatto tre realtà molto diverse tra loro:
- Il villaggio Gbégamè
- Il quartiere Notre Dame
- Il centro Claudia e Sonagnon
Returned from two really interesting and productive months in Benin. Now I am stable in Italy not yet begun design any plans, I am looking around for some projects that can be inspiring. Surfing on the net I have found two cooperation works in developing countries build for collative and public use, made by young architects.
Mattia is back from his two months long stay in Benin and we haven’t yet met for discussing all documents he collected and produced during his stage in Cotonou and in the center for young girls ‘Claudia and Sonagon’.
While waiting to meet him, Italian newspapers published the follwing artile: Benin children
This is to remember even our ‘actions’ deal with the built environment, we area aware of centrality of human dimension of any intervention.
My Name is Mattia Calore, I am an architecture student at the Faculty of Architettura e Società of Politecnico di Milano.
Following there is the text I wrote a few days before leaving Italy. I hope it will help to understand the whole thing.
Here you can have a look at a short movie
