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Community School in Bluefields, Nicaragua

Amaia Puras, Paola M Oliver Gutierrez, Caroline James, Timur Dogan, Tian Ren

+Background
The Southern Autonomous Region (RAAS) is one of the poorest regions in Nicaragua, which is the 2nd poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Bluefields population is 50,000 and 90% of the population lives on less than

$2.00 a day.

A wastepicking group has organized and is building a recycling business called Luz work in the dumpsite alongside their mothers.

Futuro. The group is made up of 26 women and around 150 children who
The group needs to build a school and wants to make it an integral part of their community. A safe, beautiful, and environmentally sensitive school, designed and built in partnership with the community will provide education for their children as well as a meeting space for the community.

Del

+Areas of Engagement 1. Communication Reach out to local community, organizations, and personals 2. Research Precedents 3. Test Material, structure, climatic test 4. Design Architectural design

+Communication

Personal
Director of the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean & Co-chairman of the International Department at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Local Community
Local Peace Corp Volunteer, NIcaragua

Organization Blue Energy CRATerre Fadcanic Norm Howard


Delegate of the Ministry of Education for the RAAS Director of the Secretariat of Education, Regional Government of the RAAS

Martim Smolka

Ricardo Zambrano
President of Local Cooperative of Women Waste Pickers

Margarita Cordoba Gaitan


Vice-President of Local Cooperative of Women Waste Pickers

Erik Flakoll Alegra Libby's Husband Guzzetti, Alfred Jan Van Bilsen Guadua Bamboo Michael Campbell
Nicaraguan Ambassdor in DC Artist / Documentary Film Maker

Lopez Petrona
Developer in Nicaragua

Michael Cipoletti Andrew Longley Ricardo Carlson President of the association of directors of schools and
director of the Saint Mark Secondary School Developer in Nicaragua

Oscar Aburto

UNDP

Coordinador de Programas y Proyectos

Nuvia Ordoez

Francisco Campbell
Dreaming Nicaragua Movie Maker

Marcelo Bukin

Mike Cippoletti Builds houses for low-income families in Nicaragua Andrew Longley
Nuevas Esperanzas TerraCycle "

Etienne Samin architect, spent a year in


Granada,Nicaragua

Brad Sherman

10.5.2012 Peace Corps volunteer Ricardo Zambrano organized a skype conference call with the women from Luz del Futuro in the UNDP office in Bluefields.

+Research

+Research / Precedents

Community Lead Low Cost Architecture Hsieh Ying-Chun Architecture Ecological Children Activity and Education Center 24H > architecture Adobe for Women Blaanc Borderless Architecture and CaeiroCapurso A House for All Seasons John Lin Education Building in Mozambique Masterstudents of Bergen School of Architecture

School Complex in Gangdo Francis Kere School Complex in Gangdo Francis Kere School in Rudrapur, Bangladesh Anna Heringer and Eike Roswag Renaissance Project Hope for Haiti Gerthy Lahens, Professor Jan Wampler School in Kerala, India Laurie Baker

+Research / Local Building Typology

+Research / Construction Technique

Earth

Bamboo

+Research / Construction Technique / Rammed Earth

+Research / Construction Technique / Adobe Brick

+Research / Construction Technique/ Bamboo

+Research / Local Material Palette

+Research / Local Material Palette

+How to Give Waste Material a Second Life?

+Research / Construction Technique/ Waste

Innovative ways of Reusing: Plastic Bottles Glass Bottles Tires

+Test

+Test / Wind Tunnel Test

+Test / Mud Test


-Poly-El -TetraPak -Plastic bottles -Plastic bags -Glass

+Design

+Design / Kick Start Charette 10.13.2012

+Design / Site Analysis

+Design / Site Analysis

Direction of Prevailing Wind

+Design / Spatial Diagram

Semi-indoor Space

Indoor Space

Outdoor Space

+Design / Spatial Diagram


Layout of One Module: 2 class rooms 1 semi-indoor space 1 outdoor space

Circulation Diagram of Module Aggregation: CLass room alway open to both semiindoor and outdoor spaces

+Design / Spatial Diagram


Single Double Quadral

Module Aggregation Study Rich and Diverse spatial qualities created by simple modular operation

+Design / Spatial Diagram


90 degree

45 degree

45 degree one side open Module Aggregation Study Rich and Diverse spatial qualities created by simple modular operation

+Design / Section Study

Lifted Platform Structure

Submerged React to Different Slope Conditions

+Design

Plan

+Design

Section

+Design

RAINWATER COLLECTION (BAMBOO STRUCTURE) VENTILATED DOUBLELAYERED ROOF

CLASSROOM
LOCALLY PRODUCED BLOCKS WITH RECYCLED AGGREGATES

VERANDA FOR DIRECT SUNLIGHT/ RAIN PROTECTION

SLAB VENTING

RAINWATER STORAGE FOR RE-USE

OUTDOOR COVERED AUDITORIUM


RETAINING WALL FROM GLASS BOTTLES

Section Analysis

+Design

Axonometric Aggregation Study

Exterior Render

Covered Roof Playground

+Team

Caroline James, M.Arch Candidate, GSD, (caroline.amory@gmail.com) Caroline has a background in architecture and design with strong interests in community participation. She eager to apply her academic research to a real project. Amaia Puras, MDesS Candidate, GSD, (apuras@gsd.harvard.edu) Amaia is a registered architect from Spain with building experience and in-depth research on energy and daylighting. Tian Ren, M.Arch Candidate, GSD (rentian2007@gmail.com) Tian has hands-on experience in building such as the Sukkah Pavilion at the GSD. Michelle Oliver, B.A. Candidate, Wellesley/MIT, (poliverg@wellesley.edu) Michelle is studying towards a Bachelors in Architecture. She is a native to Nicaragua thus carries a knowledge and about the culture and contemporary context. Timur Dogan, BT PhD Candidate, MIT, (tkdogan@mit.edu) Timur has extensive experience working with passive energy design. He will serve as the primary consultant for animation and testing of differing design models. Karina Silvester, M. Arch Candidate, MIT, (klsilves@mit.edu) Karina has a strong background in culturally specific architecture. She strives to find low tech and passive solutions for solving problems for low-income communities.

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