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Architects Without Borders is a humanitarian organization that uses architecture and planning as tools for enabling development.

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Follow our work. We bring news about ongoing projects, hosting debates that emphasize the role of the architectural profession in development work, and lastly, keeping you up to date with new initiatives and opportunities within the organization.

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Volunteers needed for a new project
Project

Volunteers needed for a new project

We are about to start up a new project concerning a coffee central in the small village El Coyolar in Nicaragua. And we are looking for volunteers to form a new project group to carry the project.

9. Dec. 2021
Upcoming slum-project in Uganda
Project

Upcoming slum-project in Uganda

With a generous donation from the donor Cisu we can now begin to realise a project in an informal settlement in Kampala, Uganda, which will provide a cleaner and healthier urban environment.

17. Nov. 2021
Welcome to our new website!
Organization

Welcome to our new website!

We are so happy to finally show off our new website – and to be able to present ourselves with a site that reflects the professionalism and dedication that characterises our organisation.

6. Oct. 2021
Follow our team in Sierra Leone
Project

Follow our team in Sierra Leone

Throughout the week you can follow one of our project groups on Instagram.

5. Oct. 2021
Aarhus Architecture Festival 2021 x Architects Without Borders Denmark
Event

Aarhus Architecture Festival 2021 x Architects Without Borders Denmark

Join us for a guided tour and showcase of our latest project, Byg Udenfor – temporary housing for the homeless Saturday 9 October 2021 on the occasion of this year's Aarhus Architecture Festival.

22. Sep. 2021

“The Biodiversity and Renewable Energy Learning Centre is an architectural masterpiece, the only one of its kind in Sierra Leone.”

Tommy Garnett, founder and executive director of Environmental Foundation for Africa

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“AUG works professionally, understands our challenges, and has entered the project with extraordinary commitment.We are very happy with the collaboration.”

Cecilie Hauerberg, head of secretariat at FANT

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“Architects Without Borders Denmark demonstrated excellent skills in examining the needs of the homeless. This allowed them to create a unique design and manage a co-construction process with the project’s users. We can highly recommend the organization.”

Byg UDENFOR

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“The project was a fruitful collaboration between Architects Without Borders and the Environmental Foundation for Africa in Sierra Leone.”

Tommy Garnett, founder and executive director of Environmental Foundation for Africa

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“We had a unique IT-learning centre built in Magburaka, which made a big difference for the locals.”

Rasmus Bering, CEO Dreamtown

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Pillars of work

Our work is based on three complementary pillars: advising and building for external NGOs; initiating development projects focusing on planning and land rights, and facilitating discussions focusing on the role of architecture and planning within development work.

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Building

We design and construct buildings of high architectural quality that contribute to local development. We offer a three-step process that allows us to support construction projects within NGOs. This entails clarification of needs, sketch proposals, and/or construction management. Do not hesitate to contact us to know more about our collaboration model.

Planning

Cities in the Global South are currently experiencing profound growth, meanwhile penury increases, leaving large groups of its population in deep deprivation. Our work centers land rights upgrading of poor housing conditions, in which we unpack and continuously acquire knowledge about planning practices, political conditions, housing financing models, social structures, and local decision-making processes.

Debate

A crucial part of our development work is discussions and debates through our social events ‘Evening Without Borders’, media appearances, and participation in fairs and festivals that altogether allow us to draw attention to issues related to development in which architecture and planning can contribute to making a difference. We strive to support the profession as a socially conscious and responsible profession.

recent projects

Just now we’re working on a football club house for exposed youth in Sierra Leone, we’re planning a coffee central in Nicaragua that will benefit local growers, preparing to build a bio-centre in Uganda to improve sanitation in a slum settlement and a school in rural Tanzania.

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School building, Tanzania
Building
Magugu, Tanzania
2022 – 2024

School building, Tanzania

In collaboration with Jabungu Foundation we are designing and building a new school in Magugu, Tanzania. The aim is to provide increased access to education in the community, in particular for vulnerable children and youth.

29. Apr. 2022
Coffee-central in Nicaragua
Building
Nicaragua
2021 –

Coffee-central in Nicaragua

The project will improve conditions locally for coffee-farmers in Nicaragua. It is being developed in collaboration with the social-economic enterprise Café Directo that provides sustainable coffee to churches across Denmark.

1. Dec. 2021
FANT – Football Clubhouse
Building
Aberdeen, Freetown, Sierra Leone
2020 –

FANT – Football Clubhouse

In Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, we're assisting the organisation FANT in designing a hybrid clubhouse and social meeting space that prevents young people from street life and into a committed and enriching community.

24. Aug. 2021
Land rights in Maputo
Planning
Mozambique
2018 –

Land rights in Maputo

Through local planning and ongoing dialogues with local municipal bodies in Maputo, we are currently involved in a larger project that aims at providing formal land rights to the land occupied by thousands of residents in Maputo’s informal settlements.

16. Jul. 2021
Bio-centre in Kinawataka
Building
Uganda
2022 – 2023

Bio-centre in Kinawataka

Can a joint sanitation-project in a slum settlement be the starting point for achieving land rights and housing finance? That is what we examine in this project, inspired by a method developed by UN-Habitat.

15. Jul. 2021

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