Ako Adjei Park
Accra, Ghana
2023
Max Bond Jr.’s own years of professional practice dedicated to the building of the then young Ghanian country in the 1960s served as a fruitful and inspiring model for this collaboration. Upon several coordination and planning meetings the three organizations responsible for this work established an agreement to work collaboratively on the research and creation of a comprehensive and sustainable development strategy for Accra. The research and proposed strategies address the inherent challenges associated with urban settlement patterns, limited infrastructure, housing shortages and limited economic opportunity within Ghana and across much of the continent.
Several of these challenges are further exacerbated by financing challenges presented by limited local and international development investment and a lack of accessible consumer and commercial banking and loan products. The latter is considered as an important component in creating a stable and affordable housing market whereby consumer affordability, development investment and loan repayment and risk is mitigated through greatly lowered construction cost, maintenance costs, translating into affordability and proven ecological scalability.
Team
Shawn Rickenbacker, Howard Duffy, Alden Copley - J Max Bond Center; William Senyo - Impact Hub Accra; Rossie E Turman - Lowenstein Sandler; Steven Davis, Daisy Houang, Dylan Jhirad, Pedro Pereira, Nnadozie Okeke - Davis Brody Bond; John-Paul Parmigiani - Impact Hub New York; Kojo Dufu - Altas Mara Ltd.; Michael Sorkin - Spitzer School of Architecture
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