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Selgas Cano, Ignacio Peydro and MIT students were approached with the
challenge to design and build a space for learning and exchange in a very
remote region of Turkana, Kenya, a region where nothing is wasted and
every material becomes instrumentalized

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he Turkana Vaccination and Educational Clinic, Konokono, is a
collaboration between MIT architecture students, Selgascano
Architects, MCSPA, and the people of Turkana. Predicated upon the
design and construction of a permanent vaccination and educational
centre for the nomadic people of Turkana, the building serves as a
broader platform for a higher level of socio-cultural exchange.

The Turkana tribe is a first society living in the vast northwestern region of Kenya, bordered by Uganda, South Sudan and
Lake Turkana, whose context is an arid landscape where few
animals live and only the toughest plants survive. Kokuselei, is a Turkana
settlement where the Missionary Community of Saint Paul the Apostle