Eco Moyo Education Centre
This project was a competition entry, challenging students to make a design proposal within 120 hours.
The Jury Panel: Anna Rotnes, Eirik Jarl Trondson, Anne Trusen Schultz, Ingrid Bull, Jan Godzimirski, Amalie Elvegard.
This project was selected and published on the official Enscape website to inspire other students and professionals.
Design team: Justin Vermeulen, April 2021.
LEARNING FROM NATURE
The Eco Moyo Education Centre is a unique farm-based school focusing on sustainable design to help catch and store rainwater, use solar power for their energy needs and compost their waste. The new Education Centre embraces the vision of learning from nature, thus the building is carefully designed to facilitate the best possible experience and interaction with nature. This will inspire the students to engage and focus on learning about nature and sustainability. Eco Moyo Education Centre is part of a charity project located in Dzunguni village, just outside of Kilifi town in Kenya. By engaging an international network of friends, family, volunteers and donors, they have created community in a rural village offering free primary education to children from the Dzunguni village.
DZUNGUNI VILLAGE, KENYA
Eco Moyo has a large property of approximately 40 acres which is located in rural, quiet surroundings which hold great opportunities for further development of the school and community, The village houses classrooms for more than 200 students divided into six grade levels, a boarding school for about 20 of them, visitor cabins for 25 guests and housing for teachers and administration.
Furthermore, various support functions have been built, such as a kitchen, office, teacher’s room, storage and sanitary functions. A larger area for play and sports has been established on the southeastern part of the site. In a short space of time, the building mass on the property has grown and spread rapidly. The buildings have been arranged in clusters of various sizes, organized around clearings and separated by dense vegetation. The need for more space grows daily, therefore a new Education Centre is needed. A place for playing, teaching and gathering.
The new Education Centre will be positioned at the foot of the village, in front of the football field; a new hub for learning about farming, water collection and sustainability.
