Ka Tembe. Entre utopia e realidade em Chali e Inguide

Abstract

Mozambique, as a developing country, faces significant challenges in several areas, particularly in the political, social, economic, and urban sectors. Despite initiatives aimed at improving living conditions and the urban environment, their comprehensive implementation is often compromised, in part by a lack of community inclusion and proper contextualization of local realities. The present dissertation emerges from a transformative experience during the 2024/2025 Erasmus mobility semester. In the "Water Ever" course, I had the opportunity to collaborate with architect Francis Kéré, exploring an architectural approach deeply sensitive to the real needs of the population. As a group, we developed a water collection and distribution project for an area in the Inguide neighborhood of KaTembe, focusing on improving access to this essential resource. This experience shaped the direction of this research, which seeks to apply the same sensitivity on a broader urban scale, in the neighborhoods of Chali and Inguide, in the KaTembe District, with the aim of contributing to the development of fairer and more contextualized solutions to urban challenges in Mozambique.