Women
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about women
Project • By TAELON7 • Factories
Fair Trade Zone
The design of the Fair Trade Zone understands circular economy as a spatial metabolism between architecture and landscape. Led by a women’s cooperative, the Fair Trade Zone in Akuse, Ghana, is based on an alternative model for integrated sustainable manufacturing, agriculture, and eco-tourism in Ghana. While the raw materials processed in the built interior grow outdoors in productive gardens, the buildings harvest rainwater and nourish the plants with ecologically purified production wastewater through the courtyard’s drainage channels and gravity-fed furrow irrigation. The result is a striated landscape composed of different biomes suitable for the diverging ecological requirements of a dye garden, a paper garden, a textile ga... More
Project • By DeMachinas • Sculptures
Room for birth and senses
The “room for birth and senses” is a walk-in clay structure that makes it possible to experience the influence of space and surroundings on birth and health. Light, smell, colour, temperature, material, and surface properties all play an important role in our perception.
Frauenmuseum Hittisau Lorenz Feinig
Frauenmuseum Hittisau Lorenz Feinig
It is an art project, at the same time a conversation opener for a larger vision where rooms and materials can support physiological and regenerative processes in healthcare environments. Inspired by Maggie’s Centres, offering non-clinical support, this prototype is a small segment of a larger concept idea of a contemporary maternity home in hospital proximity, by the... More
Project • By Hossein Mohammadpour • Community Centres
Women's House
The women's house is located in the vicinity of Qasr-e Qand city, one of the functions and the center of Qasr-e Qand city, in the most deprived province of Iran (Sistan and Baluchestan). This deprivation is especially present in the cultural, educational, economic, health, and educational issues of women and girls, and has made them vulnerable to receiving its quality and quantity.
Hossein Mohammadpour
The main reason for this deprivation is the lack of proper infrastructure as well as the lack of an attitude towards the expansion of the economy and macro education among women and girls in urban society. At the same time, women and girls play a major role in the flourishing of the economy and rural and indigenous handicrafts.
Hosse... More