Organización sin ánimo de lucro dedicada a la cooperación, la ayuda al desarrollo y la acción socialdesarrollando proyectos de arquitectura, educación y diseño.
El 16 de junio, en el Espacio 88 de Barcelona, se inauguró la exposición colectiva, coral y solidaria “Kamanar”
CEM Kamanar Secondary School in Senegal is one of the finalist projects at International FAD Awards 2022.
dawoffice project has been chosen because of its “sensitivity to local culture and available resources. It also takes into account the structure of the whole, permeable and integrated into the landscape, and the adaptation to climatic characteristics from the construction section, both basic and effective, with a project that stands out for the permeability of the spaces, the relationship with the exterior, and the formation of comfort zones from the ventilation and the form “, in words of the jury.
Pictures: Claudia Mauriño.
Foundawtion is somehow present in the Dakar Biennale off, thanks to this installation by industrial designer Marc Morro. The installation revolves around the furniture collection created exclusively for CEM KAMANAR, a school in Thionck Essyl built by the foundation.
The project with which we want to help activate the local economy is the Bajankusoor Vocational Training Center. A trade school that helps families in the area to set up new businesses and become self-sufficient. The work has already begun, in charge of the dawoffice architecture studio and the patronage of Teknia.
We want to build a building so that 50 boys and girls have a home where they can eat, sleep, play and study, away from the mistreatment, humiliation and even rape to which they are habitually subjected.
The festival was born as a meeting place for artists from both Africa and other parts of the world to promote access to contemporary art in Thionck Essyl
The CEM Kamanar project began in Barcelona in 2014, when David García and Aina Tugores, architects from the dawoffice studio, met with the authorities of Thionck Essyl and made the decision to build a new secondary school. The aim was to solve the overcrowding in the only secondary school existing in Thionck Essyl at that time.
During the construction of the CEM Kamanar school, the Marc Morro studio was in charge of designing the furniture…
In 2018, in parallel to the construction of the school (2014-2021)…
The aim of the workshop is to learn the hook technique to create small rugs…