Education / Memusi

Memusi eco classrooms

Classrooms designed around heat, ventilation, affordability and the needs of their learners.

Stone-and-mesh classrooms at Memusi

THE PROJECT

Classrooms shaped by their setting.

The brief

Create classrooms for Memusi School that respond to heat, ventilation and affordability. The work forms part of JSM’s community support.

The design

Gurmakh S. Peter designed a wall assembly of stone held within mesh. Gaps within the assembly allow air to move through, while the building form provides shade.

The building

The photographs show the classroom structures and their stone-and-mesh walls in the surrounding landscape. The same materials and details run through the building, from individual wall panels to the covered edges.

What the work involved

Classroom construction
Stone-and-mesh wall assembly
Climate-responsive design
Shade and natural ventilation

THE WALL AS PART OF THE DESIGN

01 / MATERIAL

Stone & mesh

Stacked stone held within mesh forms the classroom walls.

02 / AIR

Permeable walls

Gaps within the assembly allow air to move through.

03 / COMFORT

Space for shade

Building form and shade work alongside natural ventilation.

A NEW BUILD, AN EXTENSION OR A REFURBISHMENT

LET’S BUILD.

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