This project shows the work I did in collaboration with Kounkuey Design Initiative (KDI) in Kibera (Nairobi, Kenya). The project started as a thesis project by landscape and planning students at Harvard as an exercise in alternative development, but was taken beyond the classroom and into context. After the group had successfully established a relationship with a community in Kibera and had reclaimed a trashy swamp land they engaged me as an architectural designer to help them start developing the structures to house the various programs for the project. I ended up moving to Kibera in 2009 and for most of the following year and a half lived in the slum with the locals who were engaged on the project. Each phase of the project was planned with the community members and was based on the outcome of the previous phases.
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Organization
- Konkuey Design Initiative
Engineering Consultant
- Buro Happold Engineering
Designer and Lead Builder
- LCT