1 October, 2009 By Catherine Slessor. Serp2017 jimstephenson 16 webres. –Francis Kéré, Kéré Architecture, February 2017.

Roof construction Image credit: Diébédo Francis Kéré Close; 3 of 4; Detail of roof Image credit: Diébédo Francis Kéré Close; 4 of 4; Site plan Image credit: Diébédo Francis Kéré Close; Gando, where Kéré grew up, is a typical West African rural village—a collection of …

Jun 30, 2017 - Explore findjen's board "Francis Kere" on Pinterest. Kéré was born in 1965 in Gando, Burkina Faso, west Africa and trained at the Technical University of Berlin.

Burkinabe architect Diébédo Francis Kéré used sick and dead trees to build this pavilion at the Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana, USA. See more ideas about African house, Architecture, Architect. Diébédo Francis Kéré is the principal architect at Kéré Architecture based in Berlin, founded in 2005. Francis Kéré, Office Kovacs, and NEWSUBSTANCE are among a set of designers selected to create art installations for the Coachella Arts and Music Festival in California.

... Like its predecessor, this latest school is a long single-storey volume topped by a lightweight roof made from corrugated steel metal sheeting.

The roof, columns and seats of Kéré‘s Xylem pavilion are made from bundles of local ponderosa and lodge pole pine logs, felled during a “natural pruning” process that aims to save forests from parasitic bugs.

Source: Jim Stephenson.

Inspired by the tree that serves as a central meeting point for life in his home town of Gando, Francis Kéré has designed a responsive Pavilion that seeks to connect its visitors to nature – and each other.
Francis Kéré, Kéré Architecture. The roof projects out to form a canopy for shelter from the elements and the funnel formed by the central columns channels water into the heart of the structure when it rains. According to Kéré, the design for the roof stems from a tree that serves as the central meeting point for life in Gando. Primary School by Diébédo Francis Kéré, Gando, Burkina Faso.