Ebolowa Master Plan
“Ebolowa New Dream Town” is envisioned as a new important urban pole for the capital city of Cameroon South Region, while at the same time, it serves as a benchmark development and reference model for the other countries of Central Africa.
The project is founded on the belief that education is the most powerful driver of rapid and sustainable development, particularly for nations rich in natural resources.
Pole A & B could very well represent 1 Pole or differently even an “education route” with 3 very important schools at the regional and national level. Bantu museum is also added as an educational resource for the local community and to learn more about the history of the Cameroonian people’s ethnic provenance. 4 education facilities lined up in one axis will recall to the people of Ebolowa, Cameroon and visitors the importance of education for the future of the country.
The project emphasizes through design the “education route” that extends from east to west, connecting four educational institutions: the Music Faculty “Chantal Biya,” Art School “Dritero Agolli,” Bantu Museum, and Professional School. The route toward knowledge starts in both directions, west and east, with an evident symbolic gate styled as a transparent pavilion where you find architecture and nature in one.
The modernism of regular and irregular simple geometries of volumes and architecture elements is transformed into an organic interpretation of the landscaped context, local materials, and living mentality.
Everything is very well connected on a larger scale with a proposed pedestrian cycle path that starts from the city center and crosses its future different urban poles.
The first one, “Ebolowa New Dream Town,” also accommodates to the south of the “education route,” a sports center, a conservation park for endangered species, eco-friendly and outstanding housing for tourists and visitors’ hospitality, dormitory and social housing for students and professors.
