Woliatta Village is a collaborative project designed by Ethiopia Studio, eleven ASU graduate students led by a practicing architect. The project includes an orphanage, chapel, medical clinic and guest house for the community of Soddo, in Ethiopia, Africa. More images, a video and information after the break.
In an effort to plunge maturing architecture and landscape architecture students into ‘authenticity’ – this collaboration took students deep into reality where they could personally experience the desperate needs of a community in the developing world. The EthiopiaStudio focused on the research, comprehensive development and building design of an orphanage, chapel, medical clinic and guest house for the community of Soddo, (located 350 kilometers south of the capitol city Addis Ababa) in Ethiopia, Africa. In partnership with an American, non-profit organization currently working in the community, the EthiopiaStudio developed the master plan, landscape and architectural design and a complete set of construction documents for the immediate construction of these desperately needed facilities to support a community subject to extreme poverty and famine.
