Alternative housing is possible: following through on spanish co-operation in Nouakchott, Mauritania
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https://doi.org/10.3989/ic.2004.v56.i491.425Abstract
The present article describes the experience acquired indesigning and building some 150 housing units in Nouakchott,capital of the Republic of Mauritania, under a projectsponsored by Fundación CEAR and funded by the SpanishInternational Co-operation Agency (AECI, Spanish initials forAgencia Española de Cooperación Internacional). Initiated in2002, the project is now in the final phases.
The implementation of a co-operation project of thesecharacteristics can be viewed from many perspectives,ranging from solidarity with the most needy in a country withhuge deficiencies to training for the inhabitants of anextremely poor neighbourhood, and including support for andmaterialization of new proposals for Mauritania’s incipienthousing policies. This monograph, however, focuses on afairly short number of issues: experiences in connection withthe architectural design, materials and component testing andthe building process itself, which encouraged femaleparticipation and the establishment of workshops to makecomponents.
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