A bio-centre is an innovative sanitation building typology that provides basic services in a crowded slum, with sanitation (toilets) and bathing as the starting point. The bio-centre offers a dignified and hygienic way to relieve a large number of local slum dwellers, “collecting” feces that would otherwise pollute the street environment, making residents sick and helping to keep them in a negative disease-poverty spiral.
The faeces are collected in a large underground tank where a natural, combustible biogas is produced. The gas is piped to nearby homes where it can be used for cooking on gas stoves, and the sale of gas helps to keep the building running.
The Kampala bio-centre is the first of its kind in Uganda, and we are committed to building more in the future.
On this evening, Anton Ryslinge, architect and CEO of Architects Without Borders, will talk about the creation of the project, its challenges and the very close collaboration between Architects Without Borders, local development organizations, authorities and slum dwellers that has made the construction of the building possible.
Read more about the bio-centre here.
The event is for members of Architects Without Borders and takes place at our office at Fælledvej 12, 2200 Nørrebro. Find entrance C where we are located on the top floor.
There will be snacks as well as cheap beer and sodas.