On October 29th 2019 dozens of people were killed in Boufoussam, western Cameroon after a landslide swept away their houses. A total of 42 corpses  were taken to the morgue, while many people were found missing. The houses that collapsed were built on the side of a hill in a “risk zone” said the local official.
Just about last year during the same period, five people were killed by a landslide in the southwestern coastal resort of Limbe.
Many people have been left homeless since and very little has been done to resolve the issue, added to health issues that sprang from the phenomenon, cholera has made ravages in the area as people do not have access to clean water.
Although, many promises have been made by the government officials nothing is seen on the ground and people are still struggling to recover from their losses.
Since 2020, when we start our practice we devoted ourself to resolve accommodation crisis, and we believe the local resources must play a major role in solving the problem. We developed a protype of a net-zero self-sufficient home, which can accommodate a family of 6-7 people on less than 200 sqm and require very little manufacturing materials thus drastically reducing the construction works. Our aim is the to mass produce these home using local resources and labor, our method is based on rammed earth. 

We believe a good help must make people autonomous, therefore there is no benefit in using manufactured materials and qualified labour to build homes in this kind of region; this is why our solution focused exclusively on local labour and raw material. Our aim is to made ubiquitous our method of construction, plans and techniques and to revive the ancient methods of construction lost since the colonisation era which has made our people totally dependable on manufactured products and even made it to be the standard for good living and development.
we want to educate the masses on the benefit of local materials and develop a local economy around the building industry. We expect that many neighbourhood will be created based on our solution to quickly accommodate the population and give them access to clean water and energy which are basics for development and once done people will naturally focused on more creative way to develop this technology and create sustainable cities based upon our model.   

The project was sparked after a casual discussion with some victims, who thought nothing could be done without the government support, and we agreed that it was the government responsibility. However, since nothing was happening we concluded that people had to take their own destiny in hand and stop dreaming of some kind of help from the authorities. And since we were not talking politics we had to bring on the table a draft of what might become the solution. My team is made of 3 specialists; me the Architect, a civil engineer and an interior designer, plus 4 menbers of the community; one carpenter, one mason, and the two representative of the victims. We are open to criticism and collaboration that is why the project was presented to the community for discussion. And based on our skills and the explanation of the people living day to day in those miserable conditions we thought on designing something very optimal, which can accommodate the average family (6-7) people.
Although, we are yet to find financial support to bluid the first prototype we are all the more grateful for the many feedbacks we received from local craftsmen, and their promises to get involve in construction and freely train people of the community to self-build their homes.

First Prototype
Architect
Structural Engineer