African Design Magazine August 2015 | Page 27

African project: Ocean Dome Ocean and beach. An accompanying workshop and exhibition addresses the topic of “pollution of the seas through plastic” and experiments with the use of waste as construction material for innovative low-cost buildings. Construct buildings The idea is filling waste-like materials in metal baskets, so-called gabions. In order to do that, a light-weight construction is assembled, in which the gabions are stacked like bricks. Read more here Currently, I’m examining Watch the video africandesignmagazine.com 27