1. Chiapas-Sustainable design Ecodynamis

    Chiapas School Site

School in Chiapas

Projects

  1. Educational
The campaign with the name “A School for Chiapas” was formed after the diploma study  of  Stavros Sofianopoulos for the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University of Athens. The campaign’s beliefs are the common ownership, communal and equality in the taking and carrying out decisions the respect of the indigenes and their habitat and the ecosystem.
The School  accommodates a Teacher’s Educational Center and is based on simple forms and on local materials for the creation of a comfortable interior climate, which is compatible with the building’s use and especially its surrounding environment. The embodied energy of the school site is marginal, it is notable that there had been no electricity in the community then. With the use of local materials, responsible design for natural ventilation and daylight use, this building has the attribute of sustainability.

My role was to do  site-management for the foundation of the library and also offered handicraft labour. I have reproduced on request the module of a single teaching hall for independent units for other Zapatistas’ communities in Chiapas.

This was a voluntary work for the support of the committee and the local community, 2003

Embodied energy is the energy consumed by all of the processes associated with the production of a building, from the mining and processing of natural resources to manufacturing, transport and product delivery.

Chiapas-Sustainable design Ecodynamis

The framework

Humid Tropical Weather

This weather requires good ventilation above all.
The trellis screen instead of glass is typical of the area, protects from direct sun and the roof vents assist the movement of air with buoyancy. The wood is provided by the tropical forest of the habitat.

Chiapas-Sustainable design Ecodynamis

The Rooflights/Vents

Module

The design idea is a synthesis of octagons. There can be individual units or assemblage of many that consist the whole.
There are removable panels between the octagons so according to use the octagons can be united to form a hall.

Chiapas-Sustainable design Ecodynamis

Typical Class Module

 

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