An Exclusive Look Into the World’s First 3-D Printed School | Architectural Digest

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Maggie Grout, founder of non-profit organization

, The task is being performed. Due to the urgent need for education, more than 1.2 billion children worldwide have been displaced by the pandemic, and more than 260 million children worldwide have no access to education. Grout has set out to solve this critical problem. She created her own charity organization to serve poor communities, and now plans to build schools with 3D printing materials.

The humanitarian drive technology developed by Hyperion Robotics is the core of this technology. Grout also works with a San Francisco-based architectural design agency

(Founded by Amir Mortazavi), to create the world's first 3D printing school on four acres of land on the African coast of Madagascar. Although 3D printing technology has been used in many projects recently, including

And some aspects

This will be the first comprehensive school to adopt this approach.

Mortazavi said that the pilot school will be built on the university campus of the School of Management and Innovation Technology (EMIT) in Feyana Sosoa and will provide services to local Madagascar students. From preschool to high school, there will be a campus that can accommodate hundreds of students, with different buildings for science, library, sports, music and art classrooms, and computer laboratories. He said: "We plan to provide housing for teachers and even students."

If the campus needs it, the cellular configuration of each school can allow the connection of multiple schools.

The design is simple but effective, with a honeycomb configuration that can connect multiple schools, including vertical farms and solar panels. The pilot school will adopt a hybrid design, including 3-D printed walls and locally sourced building materials for roofs, doors, etc. The "pods" on the walls of the pods allow vertical planting; these can also be used as climbing walls for children.

Mortazavi did not take the current COVID-19 restrictions into consideration in the design, because when the first school goes live in the summer of 2021-22 (December to March in Madagascar), he believes the world will be vaccinated. If not then, students will be required to wear masks, he pointed out that they can easily add some plexi partitions on the desk. Mortazavi said: "In addition, we have sufficient ventilation on the top of the wall to allow natural air circulation to keep the climate cool and fresh air."

These schools will be equipped with ventilation equipment to allow natural air circulation to keep the climate cool when students enter the building.

The biggest challenge includes the limitations of 3D printing technology. He said: "Our unique architectural relief patterns and ventilation blocks can be made by printers." "We implemented the traditional Malagasy tribal pattern, which has repeated markings on the interior and exterior of the building we are currently testing."

Mortazavi said that the base color of most 3D printed objects is light gray, “because we want to disguise the building as its natural habitat, just like rammed earth buildings use the earth paint under the structure. We want to be in each structural layer All have a natural scale, similar to the change in pitch of a rocky cliff."

A pair of two-inch-thick walls 8-14 inches apart makes the shell somewhat mobile and has a spider web-like structure that can connect them, but leave enough space to lay pipes and pipes throughout the building. electricity.

"The advantage of 3D printed walls is that it is actually easier to make curves than right angles. We can make the thickness of the walls fluctuate and create embossed patterns, while buildings in traditional forms are more challenging and expensive." Mortazavi pointed out . Although the polygonal modular pod has a certain degree of flexibility, so the school can be scaled up according to demand, Mortazavi is still committed to providing local aesthetic charm for the interior decoration, cooperating with local artisans and using sustainable timber harvested from Madagascar. Furniture.

"Deforestation is a major problem in Madagascar. Madagascar has a biologically diverse ecosystem, in which only the island knows many endemic species. We will conduct a survey trip in the near future so that it is possible and safe in the near future. When I go there, find the most sustainable supplier for our furniture supply."

The exterior of each school will include a vertical garden.

Thought Huts hopes that schools in Madagascar can inspire innovation while creating opportunities and opportunities for education. "Our hybrid design is aware of the local economy by collaborating with Madagascar-based companies such as LafargeHolcim, because we are sourcing materials," said Grout of Thinking Hut. Calculating from these figures, 60% of the 1.3 million Malagasy elementary students who did not attend school (assuming an ideal student-teacher ratio of 35:1) indicate that a total of more than 22,000 classrooms are needed. She added: “The demand for educational infrastructure in Madagascar and the world is huge. As we continue to build schools where communities are most needed, our concept is scalable.”

The goal of the non-profit organization is to build a thought cabin in a community where every child has no education. It hopes to print twelve copies within the first year, and as long as it fine-tunes the craftsmanship and technology, it can look for opportunities in other countries. Item named

Aims to raise 350,000 US dollars to support its pilot project and the next three schools.

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