Pilot project: Slum is a modern settlement

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Pilot project: Slum is a modern settlement

Permanent houses instead of Shanties. In a poor area of Dakar in West Africa should soon be a reality. With this: a billionaire, a Society lady and a group of architecture students.

Samih Sawiris leans over the cardboard model of an apartment building. “This design appeals to me, has some stairs,” says the Egyptian building contractor, Investor and billionaire. “Stairs cost a fortune!” Sawiris must know his company, Orascom, he has been whole towns created from the ground up.

Views of the model: Samih Sawiris (pictured right) and Ute-Henriette Ohoven (on the left)

In Baraka, a slum area of the Senegalese capital, Dakar, he wants to build new houses for 1200 people build. No project is like any other, says Sawiris. He wants to be in Dakar to find a compromise between business interests and the help for the poor. That is why Sawiris with Ute-Henriette Ohoven, UNESCO goodwill Ambassador in Germany. She is a glamorous Aire fundraising galas has become known and has so much money for social projects can collect.

With “Mikromiete” to property

“I know these people in Baraka for more than 20 years,” said Ohoven. Always have the residents, for the most part, refugees from other African States, forced resettlement, fear. “And now we have the President Macky Sall asked that these people stay there. And he gave us this plot of land is promised, and we will build a district for these refugees.”

Living under corrugated iron: Baraka today

For this Ohoven and Sawiris, a special financing model thinking: About a quarter of the new dwellings should be market prices, to be sold, which given the Central location Barakas good profitable growth. Of these, in turn, the new dwellings of the current residents to be financed with only a so-called “Mikromiete” numbers and so after and after to owners. And, so Ohoven, “not in tin shacks or Holzhüten, covered with plastic, and in between a goat and chickens and the children. They should be ordinary citizens of Senegal.” In three years, so hopes Ohoven, could the reality be, flanked by educational projects for the residents of Barakas.

The Paradox of Baraka

Ordinary citizens in ordinary homes – the Senegalese Bauminister Diéne Farba Sarr could Ohoven and Sawiris with your idea already win. Together with a Delegation he travelled to Düsseldorf, to designs for the new neighbourhood watch.

See Baraka as a test case for other slum: Bauminister Diene Farba Sarr

“This is an important project for the government of Senegal, because it is a Test for this is, as you slum to restructure.” One approach so far was the forced relocation. “So forcible transfer, I would not call it” correcting the Minister Sarr. “The were measures. And we have tried, the residents alternative housing options to open up.” Baraka was a complicated quarter. “The people there live today, do not have the right to stay there. It is a Paradox that we want to resolve. And I’m very optimistic that we a definitive solution approach.”

By competition for the new building

Was particularly impressed Sarr of a design for every home, from a variety of smaller rooms which provides. So can boys and girls be housed separately. All designs come from students of architecture from Germany and are currently in the Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf issued. In a competition, the Ohovens
You Foundation together with the Association of German architects (BDA) has written out, chooses a Jury of the winning entry at the end should be built.

All a bit complicated? Once again slowly: a Charity Lady helps Slum dwellers to new houses. The builds to be a billionaire, so that as no money like to lose. And have designed the new district architecture students from Düsseldorf.

Frugality wins

“The students have excellent into it intended in the different cultures and customs of the inhabitants of this slum,” says Bruno brown, an architect and Chairman of the BDA Düsseldorf the designs. Brown belongs to the jury, the winner chooses. Some students had about the concrete – and Ziegelfassaden local designs are incorporated. “You have been listening to what the population wants. You don’t want even a temporary solution. You want to just have a place to live as the people in the neighborhood, in other neighborhoods to the right and to the left of you.”

Pilot project of concrete: architect brown in front of the urban development concept

Barun and his colleagues reward at the end of the draft group to a Student, Tim Baran as the “best town-planning concept” for Baraka. As for the design award: that he is on the minimum limit and thus cost little to cause, so Baran. “Our design is intended to be a pilot project, not only in Baraka can be implemented, but all over the world to any other point also.” In addition, Baran and his fellow elects the Jury also three more winners, the units for Baraka have designed.

The new district will, with houses of different architectural styles to look more attractive than a single building, so writes the majority of the Jury. For contractors, Sawiris is likely to also make sense. In a more attractive neighborhood if the homes, which at the end is quite normal to be sold, a better price. And this could be enough money to get out of Baraka a Vorzeigeviertel to make.