Jeannette Studio from Ivory Coast is part of our series of profiles of architects, spatial designers and builders shaping West Africa's architectural future
Mélissa Kacoutié, founder of Jeannette Studio Architecture, hopes to bring poetry into the Ivorian architectural milieu – at the moment, she feels it is too focused on the technical. To her, architecture is a multifaceted vessel for artistic expression.
‘Architecture should be experienced like an animation,’ she says, emphasising the merit in embracing one’s environment and everything it has to offer, in order to reach that hard-to-pinpoint poetic potential. It can mean using unpredictable local materials, such as woven palms – a technique which she employed to create a façade for her project Pavilion Bassam, though she wove metal sheets together instead of palm for added durability.
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