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[Marckz @MarckTrails]

@LexxyChico @TouchlineX elegantly said!

[Marckz @MarckTrails]

@Redsmoke1903 @TouchlineX the world is weak and USA are bullies.

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

In low-income communities across the Northwest Region of Cameroon, health units get built with white floor tiles. The soil beneath them is Ferralsol, a deeply weathered volcanic soil, iron-rich and distinctly red. The first rainy season stains everything. The maintenance burden falls on communities that never had the budget for it in the first place. The building fights its own environment from day one.

This is not just a design failure. It is a development failure. When you build infrastructure that the community cannot maintain, you have not built for them. You have built at them.

This is Masoro Health Center, Rwanda. Same continent, completely different decision.

The center serves over 20,000 residents within a 10 square-mile area in the foothills of the Virunga Mountain Range.  General Architecture Collaborative navigated Rwanda’s steep terrain with a series of terraces organizing curative services, preventive care, maternity services and public gathering spaces. Local brick, stone, bamboo and reed. Materials that belong to the ground they sit on and that local hands already know how to work with.

The architects hired and trained 390 local residents to construct the project, over half of them women who are rarely invited to participate in constructing the built environment.  They left with skills, income, and access to future work in the construction industry.

The building created economic activity during construction and left behind a workforce after it. That is what development through architecture looks like.

General Architecture Collaborative | Masoro, Kigali Province 🇷🇼 | 2021

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

Rwanda keeps setting the bar for what local materials can do when paired with genuine architectural intention.

Komera Leadership Center. Eastern Province, Rwanda. BE_Design.

The roof forms, brick patterns, and woven eucalyptus screens are drawn directly from Imigongo, a traditional art form originating from this region. The building does not borrow from a foreign visual language. It speaks the one that already exists here.

The flexible interior is the most intelligent part. Large hinging translucent panels transform the same space into three separate classrooms, a community meeting hall, or a large event space for performances and ceremonies. One building. Multiple functions. No wasted square footage.

The vast majority of materials were locally sourced. The workforce was local. Women made up an average of 40 percent of the construction team, with on-site skills training, fair wages, and safety equipment provided throughout.

This is architecture as economic intervention. The building did not just serve the community when it opened. It trained and paid the community while it was being built.

Komera means to stand strong, to have courage. The building earns that name.

BE_Design | Komera Leadership Center | Eastern Province, Rwanda
📷 BE_Design | Via Architizer

[Marckz @MarckTrails]

@selchumm @theMadridZone Ronaldo committed the sin of leaving madrid.

[Marckz @MarckTrails]

@PrivateDucryle @archeohistories Flip the coin, no Lend lease, soviets defeated, what does the war and the final outcome look like?

[Marckz @MarckTrails]

@fahad_isahh @theMadridZone what reason does a Real fan have to wail, any struggles we are having is not existential.

[Marckz @MarckTrails]

@fahad_isahh @theMadridZone I won't take this away from you, I think you need this to be true. Keep it, wrap yourself in it, let it soothe you, maybe, perhaps you might stop whimpering.

[Marckz @MarckTrails]

@scottbolshevik I wouldn't vote for Dr. MB, he is a man I respect, however, 8 yrs as VP demonstrated he had no weight within the party hierarchy ie, his appointees would do as they pleased, like before. As for the flagbearship, a matter of political expediency.

[Marckz @MarckTrails]

@shavnyuy What would the switching cost look like? Do we have industries and supply chains available to make building in this style affordable? Are our architects and engineers trained to work with this type of material? Regulations to ensure safety and compliance?

[Marckz @MarckTrails]

@TOMA_JAKE_KKW @theMadridZone what's wrong with u?

[Marckz @MarckTrails]

@mbaplewsteph @theMadridZone we are more cohesive without him

[Marckz @MarckTrails]

@mbaplewsteph @theMadridZone we somehow managed to win actual trophies without those goals. some may be ok with Mbappe winning even if it come at the expense of everything else

[Marckz @MarckTrails]

@KMSTLN @MHassanFootball could Valverde not play the 6 instead? he would improve on Tchoumeni, always liked him for that role after Casemiro left, Zidane played him there for a bit, he excelled.

[Marckz @MarckTrails]

@tafsirUOG @theMadridZone @lequipe did Mbappe accommodate Messi? no, y? he had his own ambitions, fairs. ppl asking that of Vini are asking him to sacrifice his, whether they are pretending not to know or just don't care is the true mystery.

[Marckz @MarckTrails]

@Greatest4433 @theMadridZone apparently more than u

[Marckz @MarckTrails]

@ShadyTrees3777 @rirokpik are u wondering the minds that wrapped native Americans in infected blankets can do?

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Africa's "Modern" Constructions Are Climate Disasters

Africa needs buildings that make sense for Africa.

Too many of our cities are filled with glass, concrete, and steel structures that trap heat, block airflow, and force people to depend on expensive air conditioning just to survive indoors. That is the opposite of "development." It is actually spectacularly poor planning.

Our ancestors understood climate before it became a conference topic. They built with the land, used local materials, created shade, allowed air to move, and designed homes that worked with the environment.

Unfortunately, we keep copying people who never designed for our climate in the first place. Construction in Africa needs to be decolonized, and that must start with a mindset change and re-education.

[Marckz @MarckTrails]

@Mrombudsmann_ @Spearhead_Af @IRODANOSA because wild cats have different traits depending on region?

[Marckz @MarckTrails]

@PhamBinh0401 @RealMadridXtra another has over 40 and nada to show for it, but u pick your priorities.