Senegal: return to the evolution of Dakar with the exhibition “Habiter Dakar”
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View of the Plateau district in downtown Dakar, Senegal.
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Too many traffic jams, too expensive rents, inaccessible coastline ... These are some of the concerns of the inhabitants of Dakar.
How to improve the quality of life of Dakar residents?
This is the theme of a virtual exhibition, “Living in Dakar”, which is aimed at residents as well as those involved in town planning.
A project led by two architects, with the Goethe Institut.
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With our correspondent in
Dakar,
Charlotte Idrac
Work in progress in the Point E district, a building is under construction.
It is one of the very many construction sites in Dakar: "
It was a district which was completely made up of houses and which is now in the process of being completely transformed with huge and very dense buildings".
Caroline Geffriaud is an architect.
With her colleague Nzinga Biegueng Mboup, they analyzed the evolution of housing in Dakar since the pre-colonial period: “
First in the Plateau, we channeled the Lebou villages, the Lebou concessions that there were.
After with the colonial era, the new typologies of houses with a certain logic.
And thereafter, Dakar gradually spread.
Being a peninsula, space is actually limited, densification is done a lot vertically
”
.
Housing not all up to the task
The observation, for architects: the current
housing supply in the capital
is very far from the expectations of the inhabitants.
Caroline Geffriaud: “
It is the question of thermal comfort, visual, olfactory and also sound comfort.
There is a lot of noise everywhere in Dakar.
It is also the question of the appropriation of public spaces, the question of outdoor spaces, and also of housing policy in general, whether it is adapted to the socio-cultural specificities of Senegal, whether it is not fair. 'application of an imported model
'
.
Covid requires, the exhibition is entirely virtual.
Every day, new content is offered on Facebook and Instagram, on
the “
Habiter Dakar
”
pages
.
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