First Prize in Architecture of the Solar Decathlon Africa 2019 international competition is awarded to the Afrikataterre team, an international consortium of students from two universities under the leadership of the UIR School of Architecture in partnership with LERMA, Technische Hochschule Lübeck in Germany (THL) and the Academic Institutions of Dakar (AID).
Aware of the challenges facing Africa with urban sprawl, the Consortium has developed a resilient module, capable of adapting to a wide range of climatic contexts found in Africa, and of proposing a methodological solution based on a prototype of a sustainable and environmentally friendly mid-range housing unit.