The whole project strives for appropriate domestic technology and self-reliance: for example, the homes will be built by the orphans with local materials utilize solar energy, and the community will produce their own food-stuffs. 

The very simple modular block geometry of the buildings with a wide cantilever roof will generate poetic and diverse internal as well as external spaces. The project envisages the gradual evolution of the Mukwano Home into Mukwano Village through continuous additions of similar modular units as more children become integrated into the center. The older ones becoming adults will have the possibility to stay at the village with their families and thus contributing to the long-term development towards an organically grown and solid community.