Design Strategy: the brief focused on developing a flow-system for hurricane proofing (old & new technologies)
What are the cultural, immaterial qualities of a flow-system that add embedded meaning ?
Ashanti Vernacular in Kumasi, Ghana
Ashanti Vernacular in Kumasi, Ghana
Rural house in Jamaica, ca. 1890s
Destruction of Hurricane Melissa
Many Jamaicans have ancestral roots in Ghana; a 2020 study by AncestryDNA found that 71% of Jamaicans have Ghanaian ancestry. The majority of enslaved people brought to Jamaica were from West Africa, including the Akan and Ashanti peoples of modern-day Ghana.