Home internal displaced persons
Northeat, Nigeria
A competition design project of home for internally displaced persons in Northeast Nigeria. A collaboration with Elisa Montanari and Trust Nwobodo. The design aims to provide an incremental house with the use of locally available and circular materials. The incremental approach involve a starting nuclues of basic rooms for four persons but allows for continues incremental to include more rooms as the family grows. The design involves use of available local birck materials and circular materials like second had doors and windows to it make more affordable for the owners considering their income class.


All materials used are based on locally available materials within the project context. The construction approach adopted can support the use of local technologies.