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Sweeping bamboo roof shapes rammed-earth community center in Senegal

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The 2026 Kaira Looro Architecture Competition awarded first prize to a design by Greece-based architects Afroditi Ioannidou and Vladimir Gligorovski for a community center in rural southern Senegal, featuring a sweeping bamboo roof over rammed-earth construction inspired by traditional Casamance impluvium houses, with the prize including funding for actual construction by local communities.

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