Excursion of the third year Master of Architecture

The third year Master of Architecture students made an excursion on Saturday July 07, 2021 in several places and neighborhoods of the city of Yaounde

Under the supervision of Pr. ESOH ELAME (University of Padua - Italy), they visited among others the Drain of Mfoundi, Messa II, the municipal lake, the national museum, Mont-Febe, SCI residence of Febe, Golf neighborhood and the Campus of the National Advanced School of Public Works.

Academic-technical excursion, the predefined objectives have been achieved:

•  Make a reading of colonial architecture in old (planned) neighborhoods of Yaounde (LAKE-Ministerial Zone);
•  Demonstrate that colonial architecture is suffering in relation to contemporary architecture which is grafted onto it and which destroys heritage and erases history;
•  Test, need for the enhancement of this heritage to start from a colonial cementation to a contemporary creativity of architecture according to Cameroon and the needs of Cameroonians;
•  Demonstrate that at the outset, the city of Yaounde was developed and built according to oriented and respected planning and that it is undergoing urbanization due to poor or lack of planning;
•  Transcribe the border between town planning and urbanization (difference);
•  Explore an ecological architecture (sustainable), thought and homogeneous, the frame being a successful combination of local materials: wood, stones, briquettes (terracotta), sand + cement;
•  Mont Febé gives a second life to those who visit its architectural and urbanistic bowels. The landscape in symbiosis with the sky gives a vital panoramic view to the eye, provides extraordinary air and gives hope; 

At the end of this excursion, the future architects also remembered that they must start from observation, because it is from it that the invention springs. From that moment, they will be able to draw (in the classic sense), organize and program, in short, to design urban planning projects, to correct or even orient urbanization and ensure sustainable mobility and put end to urban disorder in Cameroon and in Africa, in the south of Sahara.