Simbandi Children's House

The Simbandi Children’s House nestles into the Senegalese landscape, providing interactive spaces and programming to promote food security and wellness for the local children. The design carefully establishes a relationship with the site, visually reflecting the palette of natural features and materials that define the environment around it. A monolithic form of laterite earth rests upon the ground, with intermittent wooden screens which invite users into the space within. The central entrance opens to a foyer with a well which acts to benefit the entire community, and welcomes all members of the area to participate in the function of this building . The foyer acts as a threshold between programming, dividing the private family spaces from the more public interactive learning spaces.