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Community Center | Tanaf, Senegal
Community Center | Tanaf, Senegal
The new community center of Tanaf is basically used as a sacred place for worship, since the town has various religions. The basic form of a community center refers to the scale and form of its local house of Tanaf which is made out of local materials and has a singular form representing the area. For its space is required to have a large area as much as 350 sqm, five different local houses are connected to each other to form a large space as a whole. Also, as it is required to be used for worship of different kind of religion; Christian, Orthodox, Animism, and etc, the space that is connected, but at the same time has its own houses, which helps each religion to have worship at the same time, or to have big gathering for one religion to occupy. Between each of the houses where it is connected, naturally forms an outdoor courtyard space for having a tree to be surrounded by its building and be preserved. Finally, the form of the new sacred place of Tanaf is based on a typical house in Tanaf and modified to open up toward various directions of paths coming to the site and to the sky representing connection between the earth and the heaven.