Photo: Limbo Accra
Salt bricks and sweeping mud walls were among ideas to address scarcity explored by designers from 26 countries in The beauty of impermanence: an architecture of adaptability, at the Sharjah Architecture Triennial in United Arab Emirates. Nigerian architect Tosin Oshinowo wanted to look at how regions such as Africa are able to function with scarce resources. Ethiopian designer Miriam Hillawi Abraham built what looked like a church out of salt. Hive Earth Studio, a Ghanaian architecture firm, explored rammed earth walls. Ghanaian designers Dominique Petit-Frère and Emil Grip transformed a derelict shopping mall by draping strips of white calico cotton fabric across the entrance. Architects Papa Omotayo and Eve Nnaji, based in Lagos, created three-storey We Rest at the Birds Nest from scaffolding and organic waste, providing a sanctuary for birds and workers.
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