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Regenerating a Flux
ULUSKULTUR
Common Ground
MNMTI
Baghere, Senegal
Collaborated with Neslihan Asena Can, İrem Özçelik, Onur İlgöz
(equal contribution)
Kairo Looro 2021
Women’s House
Awarded as “one of the top 40 projects”
Concept
Baghere accommodates a certain sense of spirituality through its flourishing nature and companionate conventions. Within the daily and cyclic activity of the community, humane values like prosperity, peace, and equality shelter the population beyond the boundaries of territorial co-existence. Within a community that constructs itself with the idea of shared spirituality, resilience and equality would be present within the very basic idea of “sharing through experience”. The ground accommodates this cyclic regeneration by the rotating experience on top of it which stands within a duality where the static surface of the earth interacts with the ongoing movement at the top. Above these, the roof shelters the values that govern equality and prosperity within the community in the accentuated spiritual sense.
Design Approach
The static ground, dynamic movement, and spirituality are integrated within Women’s House through spaces of shared activities and emphasized experience. The common ground offers an elevated horizontal plane with maximized openness. Walls covered with earth guide the movement leading to the destination of the sunken pool with the singular expression of the well. Within this emphasized experience that refers to an abstracted “rotunda”, the cyclic essence of spirituality is addressed through the rotational movement. After committing to the rotunda, the element of water becomes present to the eye at that singular point adhering with the azure above. Within this point where all the paths directed by the walls conclude their flow, the unity on top of the common ground is emphasized. With the manual manipulation of the flexible wooden panels, the flow of spaces around the rotunda can be arranged according to the changing needs. The roof that shelters the abstract rotunda consists of wooden frames that introduce a volumetric layer that lets in the breeze and the air dissolves within the evolution.
In that sense, the regeneration of the three layers mentioned above; the horizontal ground, the dynamic movement, and the spirituality beyond the boundaries of territorial understanding are integrated within the Women’s House through spaces of shared activities and emphasized experience. In that manner, the project offers a “Common Ground” that is accessible from several orientations synthesizing the sense and daily routes of the village. Being located near the main route of the village and being accessible from secondary approaches, the ground offers an elevated horizontal plane that is stacked on soil with maximized openness. While approaching rammed-earth-covered walls referring to the featural understanding of the earth guide the movement towards the entrance to the “Common Ground” and then on top of it. These walls are elongated towards the earth below the unified slab, emphasizing the vertical continuity of the soil, the cohesion of the dynamic experience with the nature-embodied surface of the earth. The elongated walls interact with the diverse functions on top of the Common Ground, directing the movement within their standing.