Katie Albertucci

Open cast gold mines . Obuasi

Katie Albertucci . teachers: Theo Sarantoglou Lalis, Dora Swejd . AA

Open cast gold mines in Obuasi, Ghana are beginning to cease operations as underground mining takes over.

This creates an opportunity to use the morphology of the open cast mine to adapt the landscape of this productive field into an opportunity for architecture. The project aims to explore the possibility of the development of Obuasi’s open cast gold mines into new urban centers by providing guidelines for the construction and rehabilitation of the mine.