Since 2020, [A]FA has directed its attention towards the „inner-urban peripheries” of Tamale, a city located in northern Ghana, within the framework of the self-initiated Tamale Territories project. Presently, the initiative centers on the Tamale Old Airfield. The project team has been engaged in planning, landscaping, and design endeavors aimed at gently transforming the expansive sealed site—the former runway surface from the 1920th—into an urban recreational space. This transformation has been commissioned by the traditional chiefs and the local municipality authorities in 2023, with [A]FA currently advancing efforts to implement the initial project phase from the end of 2024 onward.
The project proposes five different zones with allocated spaces for recreational, cultural and economic activities. The notions of ecologies, multi-species inhabitation and the use of vegetation for the transformation of the site thereby play key roles in creating not only useable, shaded spaces, but also in bringing wild ‘nature’ back to the city. The integration of infrastructural needs regarding circulation, drainage and lighting are being considered. The project aims to create avenues for the public to experience the extreme scale and the history of the Tamale Old Airfield
