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‘All we need…’ is a complete rethinking of how to build a house in a hot climate. Three quarters of the planet lives in places where they need to stay cool. This is costing the world’s population enormous amounts of money, lost productivity, and health. Many African countries are particularly endangered by this situation. Therefore an incremental solution will not be sufficient to provide for the needs of literally millions of people, who each year aspire to affordable housing in cities such as Dakar, Lagos, Accra, and Nairobi. |
This is both a critical challenge and an untapped opportunity to start over and invent a different way of designing and constructing what is known as a ‘home.’ I have been working as a designer, researcher and contractor for five decades in three continents with specific emphasis on how a house can meet the needs of the climate, and how it can make the best use of natural materials |
My recently formed innovative start-up: ZANGO GABAN SRLS. was established to make use of the composite building components which I have designed and patented, that together form a complete structural system, to produce a cooler dwelling at a price that a person in a developing country can afford.
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