African Spaces: Designs for Living in Upper VoltaThe diversity and complexity of African vernacular architecture remain widely unknown both to the general public and to architects. Yet Upper Volta (Burkino Faso) encompasses an astonishing variety of design principles and building techniques that belie the widespread image of the primitive hut so readily associated with rural Africa. This provides a convincing interpretation of the relationship between spatial organisation and daily activity in Gurunsi life. |
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INTRODUCTION | 2 |
The Gurunsi peoples | 21 |
NUNA A Semidispersed Settlement | 50 |
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adobe granary Adono's compound ancestors architecture Atiga's Badu's Binger Black Volta bobuin bopaka Boromo built Buma's compound calabashes cattle kraal circular compound entrance construction cooking area cooking space Dagomba Dakui's dawolo defensive dègo dibi Didyr diè diga digayugu diyu DJAKO djau djena dobilé Dogon dóok door doorway dwelling space dwelling unit Dyula earth erected exterior façade function galséga Ghana grindstone guinea-corn beer Gurunsi habitations homestead inhabitants inside interior kalgungu Kassena kéléu kono Koumbili kraal kungo kunkolo Kusasi laterite Lela meters millet millet stalks Mossi Mossi kingdoms motifs naba Nankani napóro neighbors Nuna nuwo Okano's Ouagadougou outdoor packed-earth court patterns pound Pouni Puguli Rattray realm saraga semi-sunken semicircular senior man's serve shea nuts shelter side Sissala sleeping stored talanga Tauxier tegatu tion tutuini Upper Volta village viubéla wall woman's dwelling women wooden Zabarima zapo zarè Zingè's Ziou zira Ziuma's zongo zupuè