CAAS - Centre Agro-Alimentaire Siby

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In southern Mali, between Siby and Kalassa, several facilities for the CAAS development aid project have been built since 2018. A campus serves to train young women in small-scale farming techniques, while an agricultural enterprise provides practical training and production. The buildings are complemented by individual measures for school education, sports, medical care, and infrastructure. The publication documents the project by the Munich-based firm Wieland Schmidt Architekten in detail, from urban planning to details, and explains how it takes the climatic conditions of the Sahel into account. External contributions shed light on the development of the overall project, provide architectural and sociological context, and show that the plans are shaping the village beyond the boundaries of the campus. - Extensive visual material Insights into climateadapted building through diagrams, drawings, and details Comprehensive presentation of the origin, development, project process, and regional construction practices

Autorenportrait

Wieland Schmidt is an architect and heads the WSA Architekten office in Munich. Born in Berlin in 1973, he spent part of his childhood and youth in Accra, Ghana. The tropical-modern buildings of the 1950s and 1960s had a lasting influence on him. After studying architecture in Kaiserslautern, Vienna, and Stuttgart, he first worked at Werner Sobek Ingenieure and then at Helmut Jahn's office in Chicago from 2002 to 2005. He then taught at the Technical University of Munich and took on a temporary professorship in Cairo while running his own office, first LSA Architekten, now WSA Architekten. In the early 2010s, he planned and implemented several projects for GIZ and other clients in northern Mali near Timbuktu, and since 2018, he has designed various facilities for the CAAS development aid project. 

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