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Architecture For Humanity
01 November 2002. Adapted by the HIVAN Media Team.
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Architecture For Humanity is a volunteer, non profit organisation established to promote architecture and design with the specific aim of seeking solutions to global social and humanitarian crises.
The organisation has, for the past three and a half years, run and consulted a number of projects in relation to their mission.
Over the past nine months, more than 150,000 architects, designers, medical professional and HIV/AIDS specialists have logged on to the Architecture for Humanity website to learn more about their new initiative, the Mobile HIV/AIDS Health Clinic for Africa. This initiative falls under the auspices of the 2002 Open International Design Competition. This project is an open call for designers to submit ideas for a fully equipped mobile medical unit to be used by medical professionals throughout the African continent, with specific focus on HIV/AIDS treatment.
Architecture For Humanity?’s Founder and Executive Director, Cameron Sinclair, estimates that upwards of four hundred schemes will be received from around the world before the end of the competition, which closes on 1 November 2002.
During November 2002, a panel of international architects and medical professionals will meet to select a number of finalists and the winning entries are to be announced on World AIDS Day, 01 December 2002. Funds raised from the entry fee will be used to build a prototype of the winning concept. Once developed, it is hoped that refined versions of this cost-effective and mobile design will be built for use in Africa and replicated for use in other regions.
Architecture For Humanity can be contacted by e-mail on: [email protected] |
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