Centre d’Education FC Advan

Centre d’Education FC Advan
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CENTRE D’EDUCATION FC ADVAN

Nele Dechmann Architektur

ARCHITECTS
Nele Dechmann Architektur

LOCATION
Ambanja, Madagascar

CATEGORY
Schools

YEAR
2016

PHOTOGRPAHS
Nele Dechmann

MANUFACTURERS
Baosteel

COSTS
52’000 Chf (165’200’500 Ariary)

CLIENTS
El Lokal Zürich (Viktor Bänziger) und Association Advan (Titus Solohery Andriamananjara)

ENGINEER & CONSTRUCTION FIRM
Noël Andriamanampisoa, Ampanataovana-Ambohidratrimo

Centre d’Education FC Advan
© Nele Dechmann
Centre d’Education FC Advan
© Nele Dechmann

Text description provided by architect.

The Center d'Education FC Advan is located in a secluded, rustic area with extreme climatic conditions in the mountainous region of Madagascar.

Centre d’Education FC Advan
© Nele Dechmann
Centre d’Education FC Advan
© Nele Dechmann
Centre d’Education FC Advan
© Nele Dechmann
Centre d’Education FC Advan
© Nele Dechmann

Instead of an improvised training ground on a hilly meadow, FC Advan is newly provided with a football pitch, a drinking water station, a guard house and a school building.

Centre d’Education FC Advan
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Centre d’Education FC Advan
© Nele Dechmann

This gives children the opportunity to get a minimum of reading and writing lessons after football training and eating together in the evenings.

Centre d’Education FC Advan
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Centre d’Education FC Advan
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Centre d’Education FC Advan
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Centre d’Education FC Advan
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Due to the special situation, the architecture had to be planned and controlled from Zurich.

Centre d’Education FC Advan
© Nele Dechmann
Centre d’Education FC Advan
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Therefore, a simple typology was developed, all new buildings convey a common architectural language, despite their different uses.

Centre d’Education FC Advan
© Nele Dechmann
Centre d’Education FC Advan
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Centre d’Education FC Advan
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Centre d’Education FC Advan
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The only local building type served as a starting point, a small and comparatively high brick house.

It was modulated with a singular operation, the building corners were diagonally cut.

Centre d’Education FC Advan
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Centre d’Education FC Advan
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Centre d’Education FC Advan
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This resulted in an iconographic six-sect building type with a large roof that extends over the exposed building corners and protects against sun and rain.

Centre d’Education FC Advan
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Centre d’Education FC Advan
© Nele Dechmann

The plans had to be clearly readable for the local workers. Ground plans develop along symmetrical axes, and the entire design has been figuratively communicated with the help of axonometries.

Centre d’Education FC Advan
© Nele Dechmann
Centre d’Education FC Advan
© Nele Dechmann
Centre d’Education FC Advan
© Nele Dechmann
Centre d’Education FC Advan
© Nele Dechmann

The building material was a brick from which all the buildings in the Madagascar highlands were built, this stone is fired locally in the villages from the clay soil at hand.

Centre d’Education FC Advan
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Centre d’Education FC Advan
© Nele Dechmann


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