Kutamba AIDS Orphans School

Design Fellow Matt Miller is two months into his work to design the Kutamba AIDS Orphans School in Uganda. He's been tasked with designing a school that can be easily replicated in other parts of Africa on a site that is anything but replicable. The project will include the design and construction of a school facility including classrooms, offices, kitchen/dining, library, infirmary/nurse's space, and play space or children orphaned by AIDS. The design will take advantage of renewable energy systems, local materials and building methods, and context-sensitive systems solutions. Here's a quote from one of Matt's project updates: "Rather than making the two-hour walk to the hardware store I managed to replace the pin with a short length of barbed wire and chewing gum, Edison was floored by such ad-hoc ingenuity, Thanks MacGyver!" To read more about his work, take a look at his project updates on the Open Architecture Network.

 

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