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ADK Educational Center

Kabrousse, Senegal

In Kabrousse, education is most useful when it connects directly to culture, work, and daily life. The ADK Educational Center was developed as a community-serving place where learning, cultural preservation, and practical skill-building could share one roof.

Architectural rendering of the proposed ADK library’s quiet learning room, with earth-brick walls, woven screens, child-scale furniture, and shaded openings toward the landscape

The story

Food processing and practical education in Kabrousse

Architectural rendering of the proposed ADK multipurpose learning room, using earth-brick walls, perforated masonry, and high openings to bring in filtered daylight

In Kabrousse, education is most useful when it connects directly to culture, work, and daily life. The ADK Educational Center was developed as a community-serving place where learning, cultural preservation, and practical skill-building could share one roof. The final drawings extend that idea into food preservation and small-scale processing, including naturally ventilated spaces and equipment for fermentation suited to local production.

The proposal uses a modest, climate-aware building to support teaching by doing: knowledge can move between generations, locally grown products can gain value, and community members can gather around skills that already belong to the region. Journeyman International’s role was to help translate that locally grounded program into an organized, buildable facility. The proposed center connects education with the land, livelihoods, and knowledge of the surrounding community.

Architectural rendering of the proposed ADK processing center workroom, where women can prepare and package locally made goods in a naturally ventilated brick building
Architectural rendering of the proposed processing center’s flexible market and work space, with woven movable screens, filtered sunlight, and product baskets on display

Project evolution

The ADK center’s design phases

Successive studies for the Kabrousse program connect learning, production, and local enterprise.

  1. Project 16-65

    Workshop and courtyard study

    A detailed proposal organized food processing, soapmaking, dyeing, craft, storage, and sales around a protected working courtyard.

  2. Project 17-71

    ADK center development

    The later drawings extended the community-led brief into a fuller educational center rooted in Kabrousse's work and cultural life.