A GARDEN BUILT AROUND EVERYDAY LIFEDeRoche Projects has broken ground on the Backyard Community Garden in Osu, Accra, marking the second phase of the wider Backyard Urban Campus. DeRoche Projects borrows the logic rather than the image: planting beds, paths and gathering areas are arranged within a framework designed to change as vegetation grows and community uses evolve. the backyard community garden forms phase two of the wider backyard urban campus in AccraRAMMED EARTH MEETS PALM KERNEL SHELLSMaterially, the project continues research begun with the Backyard Community Club. Scheduled for 2027, the Backyard Community Garden suggests a modest inversion of the conventional city park: rather than asking people to admire the landscape from the path, it gives them considerably more to do with it. agricultural grids found across West Africa inform the project’s planting beds and circulation routesDeRoche Projects organizes the garden around cultivation, play and everyday community life