Hansruedi Schalcher
Edward Schwarz
Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction

Community center in South Africa
Tsoga Environmental Resource Center

A community-service and recycling facility situated in a poverty-stricken informal settlement of Cape Town applied a formal methodology for sustainable construction to achieve far more than just the creation of a new building. The book explains how the center respects the Rio Agenda of balanced social, environmental, and economic performance, and at the same time defines a new vernacular architectural language and also provides a model of sustainable building in low-income communities.

1st edition

78 pages

100 Illustrations (colored)

14,8 cm x 21 cm

Paperback

Language: English

ISBN-13: 978-3-7266-0082-2