Post by caleb4289 on May 30, 2016 6:06:15 GMT -6
ENTRY# 492710818
Education takes Flight
Design Team: Caleb Ferro (Architect) and Naomy Parikh (Student), India
DESIGN STATEMENT
Schools are essential to a country’s future and the steps taken towards education determine a country’s progress.
Architecture plays an important role in facilitating as well as enriching the experience of learning within a school in turn improving the education. The school at Abetenim would be an important cog in the growth of education within Ghana.
A traditional rectangular classroom would be the first thought that comes to mind when it comes to creating a low budget school for a developing nation. But limiting it to that sort of set up would only mean that the users within would have a restricted learning experience which would possibly not benefit much. So, as a design team we decided to take this traditional set up a few steps further and not by bringing a whole new definition to it, but by making a few tweaks to enrich the experience of a classroom.
The classroom module which measures as 9m x 6.5m has been designed to allow for multiple usage patterns which allow students to use a classroom in various ways other than just sitting at their desks; this freedom of usage patterns is quite essential to the growth and education of individuals. The openings and storage spaces allow for students to customize their classrooms. One side of the classroom connects to the courtyard while the other opens on to a platform which looks out to nature. The volume of the classroom as well as the openings has been carefully designed to ensure comfortable environmental conditions inside.
Material Budget:
1. Foundations: $1300
Stone masonry Foundations with cement mortar, RCC Ring Beam, Stone masonry Pedestal for wooden struts
2. Flooring: $500
Textured PCC Layer laid upon a bed of sand upon a layer of well compacted earth mixed with stone dust
3. Timber-work: $240
Vertical struts, roof support structure (trusses & beams), rafters
4. Walls: $650
Rammed earth walls with continuous RCC Lintel running on top
5. Openings and Shutters: $120
Raw wooden Shutter frames and shutters with interwoven bamboo cane mat within
6. Roofing: $2400
Corrugated Zinc Sheeting, Netting, Metal Flashing, Folded Metal Gutter
7. Labour: $2100
Labour calculated for 60 days of work considering 2 skilled labourers and 2 unskilled
8. Miscellaneous: $150
Hardware, Accessories, etc.
Contingency: $400
Total Estimate: $7860
Note: All rates are tentative and are subject to future change
Stone masonry Foundations with cement mortar, RCC Ring Beam, Stone masonry Pedestal for wooden struts
2. Flooring: $500
Textured PCC Layer laid upon a bed of sand upon a layer of well compacted earth mixed with stone dust
3. Timber-work: $240
Vertical struts, roof support structure (trusses & beams), rafters
4. Walls: $650
Rammed earth walls with continuous RCC Lintel running on top
5. Openings and Shutters: $120
Raw wooden Shutter frames and shutters with interwoven bamboo cane mat within
6. Roofing: $2400
Corrugated Zinc Sheeting, Netting, Metal Flashing, Folded Metal Gutter
7. Labour: $2100
Labour calculated for 60 days of work considering 2 skilled labourers and 2 unskilled
8. Miscellaneous: $150
Hardware, Accessories, etc.
Contingency: $400
Total Estimate: $7860
Note: All rates are tentative and are subject to future change