Expression of democratic values ​​and identity. Benin National Assembly by Kéré Architecture

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Architects
Kéré Architecture, Débédo Francis Kéré. Project Architect.- Jeanne Autran-Edorh. Architects.- Alexandra Zervudachi, Kinan Deeb, Javier Mola Cardenes.
Project team
Andrea Maretto, Leonne Vögelin, Charles André, Ismaël N’Faly Camara, Léon Bührer, Malak Nasreldin Kéré Architecture, Berlin, Germany.
Collaborators
Construction Management.- Contact Architect.- Ecoplan, Cotonou, Benin. Local management.- SImAU, Cotonou, Benin. Engineering.- Aecom, London, UK, Sahel-ingenierie Dakar, Senegal.
Client
Republic of Benin.- Minister of Living Environment and Sustainable Development.
Area
35,000 sq.m.
Dates
Design.- November 2018 – December 2020 (beginning - end). Construction Start.- March 2021.
Location
Porto-Novo, Republic of Benin.

Diébédo Francis Kéré

Diébédo Francis Kéré (b.1965, in Gando, Burkina Faso, west Africa) trained at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany, started his Berlin based practice, Kéré Architecture, in 2005. Kéré Architecture has been recognised nationally and internationally with awards, including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2004) for his first building, a primary school in Gando, Burkina Faso; LOCUS Global Award for Sustainable Architecture (2009); Global Holcim Award Gold (2011 and 2012); Green Planet Architects Award (2013); Schelling Architecture Foundation Award (2014); and the Kenneth Hudson Award –European Museum of the Year (2015).

Projects undertaken by Francis Kéré span countries, including Burkina Faso,Mali, China, Mozambique, Kenya, Togo, Sudan, Germany and Switzerland. He has taught internationally, including the Technical University of Berlin, and he has held professorships at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Accademia di Architettura di Mendriso in Switzerland.

Kéré’s work has recently been the subject of solo exhibitions: Radically Simple at the Architecture Museum, Munich (2016) and The Architecture of Francis Kéré: Building for Community, Philadelphia Museum of Art (2016). His work has also been selected for group exhibitions: Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010) and Sensing Spaces, Royal Academy, London (2014).

Among his main works are the Primary School (2001) and the Library (under construction) of Gando, Burkina Faso; the Health and Social Promotion Center (2014) and the Opera Village (under construction), both in Laongo, Burkina Faso; the Satellite of the Volksbühne Theater at the Tempelhof Airport, in Berlin (temporary installation, 2016); or the Pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery of the year 2017.

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