Droneport, Ruanda

Text: Bálint Botzheim
Photos: Normanfosterfoundation.org

The struggle against global warming encourages the building industry to find innovations. How is it possible to build by loading less stress on the environment whilst using less resources that we borrowed from the next generations? The initiative named Ruanda Droneport was launched in 2016 in Ruanda where the infrastructure necessary for transportation is seriously backward. To transport and distribute medicine and aid cargoes to the needy ones is extremely challenging. Jonathan Ledgard, a lecturer for EFPL, the chairman of LafargeHolcim Foundation have ambraced the case and in cooperation with architects they have also started to work out the concept. They have been thinking about astructure which can be built predominantly from locally found materials.