Niger (Republic of)

The project plan for the Nigerien pavilion is basically the mixing of different cultures: the African and the Western cultures which give rise to a cultural ‘laboratory’ where one serves the other by creating a different one, to which we have given the name of Archifusion (Fusion in Architecture). Archifusion develops the concept of collaboration in the broader sense of an extended ‘workshop/laboratory’, where the basic concept becomes collaboration based on an exchange of common experiences that generates knowledge for all parties involved in the project. This growth is central in an era such as ours in which knowledge, having become a ‘capital’ resource, is seen in the world as intellectual property and therefore exclusive rather than ‘inclusive’.