Big 5 Construct South Africa 2027Exhibition
The 2027 Kaira Looro challenge asks teams to design a roughly 700 m² health centre for rural southern Senegal, with registration opening on 8 January 2027.
Kaira Looro’s 2027 edition focuses on a health centre for a rural area of southern Senegal. The brief sets a project of about 700 m² and frames the design problem around primary healthcare, climate response, cultural context and construction methods that can work with local resources and self-building processes.
The organiser identifies earth, timber, stone and iron among the material references for the challenge. That does not prescribe a single construction system; it establishes the practical context in which competitors are expected to think about heat, rain, maintenance, buildability and the relationship between the health centre and the community it serves.
Registration opens on 8 January 2027. Teams may contain one to five members, participation is international, and students, architects, designers, engineers and other entrants may apply provided at least one team member is 35 or younger. The organiser publishes a first cash prize of €6,000, internship awards with established practices and a jury of more than 25 architects.
Design a sustainable health centre of approximately 700 m² for rural southern Senegal. The proposal should respond to local climate, community needs, cultural identity and realistic construction conditions, with self-construction and locally relevant materials forming part of the brief’s context.
Registration opens 8 January 2027. The final submission deadline is published for 6 June 2027; jury review follows in June and winners are scheduled to be announced on 6 July 2027.
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