KASHITU NEXUS CAMPUS [EDUCATION-COMMUNITY-RESILIENCE]

Project idea

The project aims to create a comprehensive campus integrating education, community, and ecology in the rural heartland of Zambia. Based on the site context between Ndola and Kapiri Mposhi, it retains the original teachers' dormitory, nursery school, and workshop, while expanding purposefully to respond to the site's agrarian-transport character. Guided by the core concept of "Education • Community • Resilience", the design constructs learning and living spaces that encourage social interaction, adapt to regional culture, and feature ecological sustainability through tree-lined walkways, open spaces, and functional zoning.

Project description

Retention and expansion: Preserve the original teachers' dormitory, nursery school, and workshop, and add new facilities such as classrooms and labs, student dormitories, administrative buildings, libraries, canteens, multifunctional halls, landscaped leisure terraces, apiaries, football courts, etc.
Spatial layout: Taking the central road as the axis, a visual focus is formed from the main entrance to the multifunctional hall. Pedestrian walkways and vehicle circulation lines are arranged along the original road layout, and each functional area is connected by courtyards and corridors.
Landscape system: Including tree-lined walkways, green leisure platforms, and apiaries to build an ecological green network.

Technical information

Building materials: The main body uses red bricks and perforated bricks, timber frame structure, waterproof canvas roof, and partially uses translucent stone walls and ventilated wooden windows.
Structural design: The sloped roof design optimizes natural lighting, and the dormitory area uses an angular layout to introduce light; the multifunctional hall is a sunken circular plaza (diameter 3.24 meters), and the indoor and outdoor spaces are connected by a rotating wooden door.
Functional parameters: The two dormitories have a total of 58 rooms, accommodating 230-350 students; classrooms and laboratories are connected by courtyards, and the timber frame forms inner and outer corridors for sunshade and humidity reduction.

Documentation

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