Article source: nav_s baerbel mueller + Juergen Strohmayer

The Nubuke Foundation, founded in 2007, with locations in Accra and Wa, has a wide range of programs supporting the arts, culture, and heritage of Ghana. The East Legon (Accra) grounds are defined by a large variety of day and evening programs that cater to many audiences spanning networks in the city, country, and region. The design of Nubuke Extended resolves this programmatic layering through a generosity and specificity of spaces. Green spaces and openness have been a driving design focus, as well as simplicity, which allows the spaces to become hosts to a variety of scenarios. Large gatherings for music events or festivities may spread underneath the new building, while on quieter afternoons, children may move on to the stage platform to read books from the library shaded by palm trees, and cultural producers may sit and co-work with others in the bungalow´s main space, the Nubuke lounge.

Image Courtesy © Julien Lanoo

• Architects: nav_s baerbel mueller + Juergen Strohmayer
• Project: Nubuke Extended
• Location: Accra, Ghana
• Photography: Julien Lanoo
• Area: 290m2 gallery, 3000m2 grounds
• Structural Engineers: Bollinger & Grohmann Ingenieure

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