The Golden Trezzini / "Breathing Frame" Community Center

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Country: Senegal
Year: 2026
Applicant: Daria Alexandrenko
Status: Conceptual design

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"Breathing Frame" Community Center

Category: Best Project of Building or Facility by Student

In Senegal, the sun is the chief rival to comfort, while the wind offers the sole free source of air conditioning. Traditional buildings trap heat inside; our project proposes the exact opposite—rather than erecting walls, we create voids.

Instead of enclosed rooms, we design a network of shaded, ventilated corridors—interstitial gaps between volumes. These corridors are aligned with prevailing wind directions to capture the trade winds. Air enters from one side, cools in the shade, and flows through to the other, carrying away trapped heat from the rooms.

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Senegal

About the Applicant

SPbGASU. Third-year student, Faculty of Architecture.

Project Authors

Sergey Nechaev, Daria Alexandrenko

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Sergey Nechaev, Daria Alexandrenko

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Academic Supervisor: Elena Bobrova

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