CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
CLEMSON ARCHITECTURE CENTER IN CHARLESTON
SPRING 2009
COLLABORATIVE STUDIO PROJECT WITH 13 CAC.C STUDENTS
LOCATION: OKURASE, GHANA
Project Okurase is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to create a model sustainable center that will improve the economics, education, and welfare of the village. Dr. Cindy Swenson of MUSC came to the CAC.C with a program for 16 buildings that she and Samuel "Powerful" Yeboah, the project director in Okurase, had created. The goal of this vertical design studio was to craft that program into a settlement woven together on several levels. The 16 building facility, called the Nkabom Centre, will provide education and job training opportunities in an effort to address the HIV/AIDS crisis in Ghana. In addition to providing these education opportunities, the Centre will provide medical care, clean drinking water and bath facilities, and homes and communities for children orphaned by the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Way Forward Homes.
Since the completion of our semester at the CAC.C, we have been i touch with our project architect in Ghana and assisted in the permitting process. The Centre is currently under construction.
