Design of Kashitu School——Growable Buildings

Project idea

We hope to design a comfortable learning space based on the local environment for local students, and aim to create spaces and expansive buildings in schools that allow students to express their personalities. Considering that schools may require more learning and living spaces in the near future, we hope to create an infinite future within a limited budget. During the design process, we connected the beams of adjacent rooms and raised the rooms. A complete continuous structure and discontinuous rooms were constructed in this way. In the future, when it is necessary to expand a room, only additional panels need to be added as walls and roofs to build on the existing structure. At the same time, students can freely construct their own personalized additional rooms in this way, thus creating a colorful campus community.

Project description

The project focuses on Kashitu School in Zambia, designing and serving local students and teachers, constructing classrooms, laboratories, dormitories, and public areas for their learning and living.

Technical information

Total land area:6.36 ha
Total building area:13660㎡
Plot ratio:0.21
Greening rate:0.47
Building density:0.21
Cover an area:13660㎡
Underground area:0㎡
The materials are local self-made perforated bricks, which are used to build the wall. Finally, the building is built with the frame structure, and the steel frame is welded outside the frame to form the ceiling above the roof supported by the steel frame structure.

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