Designed by Peter Rich Architects, a South African firm which strives to promote "a truly sustainable African architecture, enthusiastically engaging in often long and complex political and consultative processes to ensure that the legacies of the projects last way beyond the buildings completion."
The Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre is situated at the convergence of the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers in the Mapungubwe National Park. This is the site of an ancient civilization linked to the Great Zimbabwe trading culture. This poverty relief project used ecological methods and materials.
"The project’s agenda extends beyond the presentation of the area’s history to awaken an understanding of the vulnerability of the local ecology. These objectives are manifested in the construction process of the Centre in which unemployed local people were trained in the manufacture of stabilized earth tiles and in building the vaulting."
I hope to see the building one day, but in the mean time, will have to admire the photographs...
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