ongoing · AVN / local masons · Africa
The chamber score
Balafon xylophone suite
Bobo / Mossi · Burkina Faso
Earth architecture, wooden keys. Same clay, different register.
An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.
Why it is here
The Nubian vault revival, a vernacular technology of the Sahel.
Commission the full chamber
This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.
Ask the studio to reconstruct Nubian Vault houses through sustainability — or shift it into another corridor.
Open a commissionShift the feeling
What if Nubian Vault houses was rebuilt as something else?
Ask the architect
