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Project • By Simple Architecture • Primary Schools
Classrooms for New Day School
New Day School is a migrant learning centre serving Burmese migrant and refugee communities in the Thai border town of Mae Sot. Since the last military coup on 1st of February 2021 the numbers of Burmese refugees and migrants crossing into Thailand have dramatically increased. Help without Frontiers Thailand is a community based organisation, that is supporting learning centres by providing essential funding for teacher salaries, lunches and school uniforms. Due to the limited funding, the support for new classroom buildings, sanitation facilities and overall infrastructure are often lacking.
Alessandra Esposito
Alessandra Esposito
Alessandra Esposito
Oliver Giebels
The New Day School Classroom project marked the first... More
News • Detail • 11 Sep 2023
Detail: Compressed Earth Block Walls of 43 Viviendas Sociales, Ibiza
Barcelona-based Peris + Toral Arquitectes has completed a passively heated and cooled social housing complex, oriented towards the nearby sea to take advantage of cross ventilation. Its unique and efficient structure consists of a series of parallel walls made from blocks of compressed Spanish soils.
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José Toral and his partner Marta Peris like to design buildings that use as little material as possible. Less material, according to Toral, means less weight, less carbon emissions, lower costs and altogether better constructions.
When the pair entered a competition to design a social housing complex on the island of Ibiza, they conceived a low-cost building that would function as an extension of th... More
News • Detail • 29 Jun 2023
Detail: Creating Kampala’s new rammed earth and earth brick arts centre
32° East Arts Centre is Kampala’s first purpose-built community arts space and the new home of 32° East | Ugandan Arts Trust. Located in Kabalagala, a central neighborhood in Kampala, the centre is a creative hub for the city’s artist community: it provides a welcoming, inspiring, and nurturing space — a place where artists can work and socialize. The arts centre was designed by London-based New Makers Bureau in collaboration with Kampala-based Localworks. New Makers Bureau places a great emphasis on architecture that is craft-led and low in embodied carbon; Localworks is a multidisciplinary design and build studio specializing in ecological architecture.
Timothy Latim
32° East Arts Centre is a buildi... More