Bamboo/Earthbag School in Mozambique

Bamboo and earthbag school by Bergen School of Architecture
Bamboo and earthbag school by Bergen School of Architecture

“19 architect students, 5 weeks in Southern Africa, a school building in 12 days

Students from the Bergen School of Architecture in Norway have built a school building in a Mozambique village using sand bags, bottles and grass. The building consists of an enclosed room for computers and a more flexible space with grass doors for English lessons, divided by a large sliding door. A reinforced-concrete frame was filled in with sand bags and glass bottles were embedded in one wall.”

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For the Love of Earthbags

The driving factor behind this project is the belief that simple design is high design, particularly when working in the developing world. For the Love of Earthbags (F.L.O.E.) is an interactive design project that aims to prove that it’s possible to approach high-design in a manner that is tasteful, modern, and groundbreaking by using only … Read more