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    Project entry 2005 - Tsoga Environmental Center and Local Sustainability Catalyst, Cape Town, South Africa.

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    Project entry 2005 - Tsoga Environmental Center and Local Sustainability Catalyst, Cape Town, South Africa: Resource Context

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    Project entry 2005 - Tsoga Environmental Center and Local Sustainability Catalyst, Cape Town, South Africa: Existing Context

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    Project entry 2005 - Tsoga Environmental Center and Local Sustainability Catalyst, Cape Town, South Africa: Domestic Scaled Workshop Space

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    Project entry 2005 - Tsoga Environmental Center and Local Sustainability Catalyst, Cape Town, South Africa: Home as Resource Generator

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    Project entry 2005 - Tsoga Environmental Center and Local Sustainability Catalyst, Cape Town, South Africa: Community Meeting Space

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    Project entry 2005 - Tsoga Environmental Center and Local Sustainability Catalyst, Cape Town, South Africa: Ground Floor Plan

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    Project entry 2005 - Tsoga Environmental Center and Local Sustainability Catalyst, Cape Town, South Africa: Elevations

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    Project entry 2005 - Tsoga Environmental Center and Local Sustainability Catalyst, Cape Town, South Africa: Water Harvesting

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    Tsoga Environmental Center and Local Sustainability Catalyst, Cape Town, South Africa: Passive Design Strategies

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    Project entry 2005 - Tsoga Environmental Center and Local Sustainability Catalyst, Cape Town, South Africa: Team image

This project takes us to Cape Town, South Africa, and forms the nucleus of an effort to promote sustainability in a context marked by poverty, unemployment, and environmental degradation. It is conceived as a local catalyst for sustainable development. The proposed scheme is meant to heighten awareness of the importance of ecosystems and energy conservation in the framework of a reinvigorated social network.

Last updated: April 07, 2005 Cape Town, South Africa

These measures are spearheaded by a community-based education agency whose main goal is to design processes that help create jobs, improve environmental conditions, and instruct the local population on ways to stimulate their economic wellbeing. All materials used for construction are indigenous, as are the techniques for building. These are deployed in a sophisticated manner and satisfy the aspiration toward modernization while showing sensitivity to traditional values.