AFH Soccer Field Design Competition

The nonprofit Architecture for Humanity (AFH) has announced

a competition to design a soccer facility in Somkhele, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The facility, to be run by medical professionals from the Africa Center for Health and Population Studies, will serve as a gathering place for youth aged 9 to 14, including the area’s first girls’ soccer league. The pitch will be used as a dissemination point for information on HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, and eventually as a service point for a mobile health care clinic, also designed through an AFH contest. The facility, to include a full-sized field, sideline benches, and a small changing room, should be built with sustainable, local materials for less than $5,000. A jury will select three finalists, and the Somkhele Girls Football Team will name the winning design, which will be built during the fall of 2004. For more information, visit www.architectureforhumanity.org.