Spanish Architect Designs Classroom For High School In Abetinim Using Kente Pattern Designs

• A Spanish architect, Alberto Figueroa, designed a classroom block for a high school campus in the Ashanti Region of Ghana
• The architect used local materials in the construction process and engaged the services of local workers
• The design of the classroom block adopts colourful kente patterns as a way to respect the traditional culture

An Italian architect, Alberto Figueroa, has led a team of international volunteers and local labourers to design and build a classroom block for a high school in Abetinim. The project's purpose was to construct a school building using local resources and construction methods, therefore utilizing local labourers and boosting the local economy.

Many of the project's international volunteers were graduates and students of architecture who gained expertise with green building techniques, like using "rammed earth."

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The project was purposely designed to blend with the environment and interact with the community. The building's position and structure were built to reduce direct sunlight exposure, boost indirect sunlight, and remove the need for artificial lighting and the accompanying expenditures.

In addition, the roof's design serves two purposes: it first collects rainwater for later usage in the restrooms and offers optimum acoustics.

The base of the school building project was made with rammed earth, whiles the structure was made with wood, which provides cross ventilation and indirect sunshine inside the building. The building has also been designed with colourful kente references.

The school project resulted from the non-profit NKA foundation's international competition. The project has been converted into a video to instruct future architecture students, project directors, NGOs, and volunteers on the construction process.

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Two Italian Architects Designed and Built an 'Inside Out' School in Remote Village in Ghana

In an earlier story, YEN.com.gh wrote about how two Italians designed and constructed a school in a village in Ghana. In the small Ghanaian community of Yeboahkrom, two Italian architects named Andrea Tabocchini and Francesca Vittorini designed and constructed an "inside-out" school.

The two Italian architects' design proposals garnered international attention and several honours. The inside-out school was constructed because high storms destroyed the only school in the village of Yeboahkrom.

Source: YEN.com.gh