In this episode, I speak with Carolina Larrazábal, the co-founder and design director at BuildX Studio. BuildX Studio is an innovative award-winning architectural studio based in Nairobi, which is the first architecture, engineering or construction company in Africa to become B Corp™ certified. The team at BuildX Studio is on a mission to build radically better buildings. In our conversation, Carolina explains how her team is building dignified circular affordable housing in Kenya and how through their partnerships (i.e. with their sister branch BuildHer) and design process, their work embeds equity, diversity and sustainability in every stage of the development process.

In this episode, you'll learn about:

• what is dignified affordable housing and what considerations go into creating it,
• Mass timber/Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) and why BuildX thinks that it is the future of building materials in this region and beyond,
• BuildX's Circular Cooperative Affordable Housing Project,
• BuildX's efforts to build 10,000 affordable homes by 2030,
• how BuildX hopes that their affordable homes will provide a pathway to homeownership for low-income sectors of the population,
• and much more!

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