current projects
Architects Without Borders aims at contributing with architectural and developmental expertise. See all our current here and completed projects below.
Caring for vulnerable homeless people
In this project, we lend a hand to the Red Cross to upgrade two care centers for vulnerable homeless people in Denmark
Wayfinding at Center Sandholm
In this project, we give the Red Cross a hand in making it easier to find your way around Center Sandholm, Denmark's reception center for asylum seekers.
Build-back-green in Ukraine
A pilot project that investigates the ability of bio-based building materials to reduce CO2 emissions from the future reconstruction in Ukraine.
Intensive urban farming in Uganda
A climate adaptation project exploring ways to increase urban farming yields in slums
Land rights in Maputo #2
Through local planning and dialogue with municipal bodies and other stakeholders 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.
Cycling culture in Cuba
A new project to introduce cycling culture in a number of Cuban cities is underway.
Completed projects
Cooperative urban development in Korogocho
A collaborative public space project, targeting children and youth in a large slum in Nairobi.
School in Tanzania
School project in Sarame, Tanzania, targeting particularly vulnerable children and young people.
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.
Coffee-central in Nicaragua
The project will create better conditions for coffee farmers in the Nicaraguan highlands in collaboration with the social economy company Café Directo, which supplies sustainable coffee to churches in Denmark.
Football Clubhouse
In Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, we designed a combined clubhouse and social meeting place that helps get young people off the streets and into an engaging and enriching community.
Land rights in Maputo #1
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.
Cooperative Dairy in Khovsgol
We are working on the final touches on a new cooperative dairy for dairy farmers in Khovsgol, Mongolia. The dairy increases the farmers’ ability to produce and sell their high-quality dairy products at a more reasonable price as an engine to prevent poverty in the region. The dairy is jointly owned by the farmers in…
Casas Melhoradas
Casas Melhoradas ("improving housing") is a housing project born out of the ambition to improve the housing conditions of low-income groups in Maputo, the capital city of Mozambique. The project introduces a series of new housing typologies and techniques in Maputo’s informal settlements.
Byg Udenfor (build outside)
The project encompasses a series of temporary, mobile housing for the homeless in Aarhus, Denmark. The project included co-design and co-construction.
Magburaka Education & Computer Centre
A combined IT learning facility and community house in Magburaka, Sierra Leone.
Cambodia Kindergartens
Two new kindergartens as replacements for those destroyed during the civil war that waged the country between 1955-1975.
Bio Learning Centre
A 700 m2 environmental learning facility for the EFA (Environmental Foundation Africa) in Sierra Leone. The project is to date the largest facility built by our organization and focuses on environmental protection and education.
Kibera Bio Centre
A new stand-alone sanitary building as an extension to an existing school. The building consists of toilets and bathing facilities and utilises waste to produce biogas.
Masanga Dwellings
The Masanga Dwellings are new staff housing provided for the labor force in a war-ravaged hospital in Masanga, Sierra Leona. The project does not only provide new housing facilities to attract a qualified labour force but equally, enables the hospital to expand its capacity.
The Chameleon School
Development and testing of a new mobile school concept that enables the school to reach the children who are not able to attend school. The project’s target group is the children of poor seasonal and migrant workers in Goa and Maharashtra, India.
