PROJECT PIGWAY
2014
CCA SOCIAL IMPACT AWARD
DESIGNED BY
LEAH ZALDUMBIDE (ARCHITECTURE)
YULIYA GREBYONKINA (ARCHITECTURE)
AND MARGHERITA BUZZI (GRAPHIC DESIGN)
PROJECT ADVISOR: LAUREN ELDER
This elegant Hog Barn was funded by a $10,000 Social IMPACT Award from California College of Art. At the time, Elder was serving as an advisor to the Awards Program and following a visit to rural Ecuador, advanced an opportunity for students to work with the residents of Puerto El Morro through the community host APROFE, a public health NGO, based in Guayaquil.
The problem: Feral pigs, foraging for food, carpeted the town with feces during the day presenting health issues for residents and tourists alike.
The proposed solution: create "pig runs" with feeding troughs that paralleled the main streets but confined pigs in their own space.
The Pig Owners reply: Pig way? No way!
Plan B: A mutually beneficial collaboration with the uphill farmers of the agriculural cooperative, Tierra Fertil. They donated land, assembled a highly skilled and efficient building crew, leveled a plot - and within two weeks the structure was inaugurated! The receptacle at the bottom of the channel was created to accumulate flushed feces for fertilizer.
Elder facilitated by making the preliminary community introductions, teaching project management skills and bringing in local advisors on bamboo.
The outcome: healthier conditions for humans and pigs alike.
2014
CCA SOCIAL IMPACT AWARD
DESIGNED BY
LEAH ZALDUMBIDE (ARCHITECTURE)
YULIYA GREBYONKINA (ARCHITECTURE)
AND MARGHERITA BUZZI (GRAPHIC DESIGN)
PROJECT ADVISOR: LAUREN ELDER
This elegant Hog Barn was funded by a $10,000 Social IMPACT Award from California College of Art. At the time, Elder was serving as an advisor to the Awards Program and following a visit to rural Ecuador, advanced an opportunity for students to work with the residents of Puerto El Morro through the community host APROFE, a public health NGO, based in Guayaquil.
The problem: Feral pigs, foraging for food, carpeted the town with feces during the day presenting health issues for residents and tourists alike.
The proposed solution: create "pig runs" with feeding troughs that paralleled the main streets but confined pigs in their own space.
The Pig Owners reply: Pig way? No way!
Plan B: A mutually beneficial collaboration with the uphill farmers of the agriculural cooperative, Tierra Fertil. They donated land, assembled a highly skilled and efficient building crew, leveled a plot - and within two weeks the structure was inaugurated! The receptacle at the bottom of the channel was created to accumulate flushed feces for fertilizer.
Elder facilitated by making the preliminary community introductions, teaching project management skills and bringing in local advisors on bamboo.
The outcome: healthier conditions for humans and pigs alike.