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Jajja holding the scale model of "Jajja's house", standing inside the built home. Rural village of Kikajjo, Uganda, February 2020.
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Learning from Jajja's way of living: her needs and desires, her routine, her routes, her rituals + Research on local resources and techniques and learning from examples of technical innovation.
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The preliminary project design, communicated and discussed with Jajja through a scale model.
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The roofing structure designed for the house was tested in a prototype built for a local school - Honey pot's Nursery School
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A structure considering the female ergonomy was designed in a student workshop to help construction.
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Final drawings of Jajja's house: floorplan, sections, elevations and a perspective diagram.
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The construction process and the team. Kikajjo, Uganda - February 2020.
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Jajja's House - panel
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Jajja's House
Mariana Montag Ferreira. Kampala, Uganda
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Name of work in English
Jajja's House
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Name of work in original language
Self-built housing for rural women
Prize year
Young Talent 2020
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Work Location
Kampala, Uganda
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Author/s
Mariana Montag Ferreira
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School
Architecture and Urbanism School - Mackenzie Presbiterian University.
São Paulo, Brazil
Young Talent 2020 YT Open Shortlisted
Jajja's House
Self-built housing for rural women
Program
Single house
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Labels
Social · Prototype
Jajja's house is an emancipatory project of self-built housing for rural women. From first drawings to construction, the project understands the building process as a place for knowledge exchange, approaching design as a holistic action capable of questioning the conventional production chain.
The project was designed through immersions in Kikajjo, a community in Uganda, East Africa, in a process that involved the direct participation of Jajja, a 76 year-old community leader. The methods employed are based on field work, ethnographic and technical surveys, and prototyping through the practice of construction. The dedication to feasibility comes from a commitment based on caring.\nJajja's house has two main guiding principles. Firstly, departing from a systemic understanding, it approaches human labor and local materials not just as resources, but as active agents in a cyclic development in the community. Secondly, it incites the bridge between academia, the demands of the community and the practical world. Using private and long-term capital to develop an educational design process with a slower pace, academia must train aspiring professionals to connect with local knowledge in order to make collective decisions for sustainable development and jointly generate coherent solutions for the future.\nThe module of the house and its elements were all dimensioned having the woman as the main constructive agent. The construction process was realized through construction workshops for local women, promoting technical training as a tool of empowerment towards their autonomy. Sharing innovative techniques, pillars connect inverted trusses with the function of capturing rainwater, reclaiming the commons. All environments are organized underneath an independent roof, allowing adaptation for different family formations. Jajja's house begins with the prototype in Kikajjo, but continues with the possibility of expansion both though the replication of the module and the methodological process of addressing similar demands around the world.