Umueze Village Primary School

After one passes through the campus’s gates that defines the threshold into the learning grounds and provides a level of security, the individual is invited to experience a fragmented axial courtyard that connects the existing building transformed into library/media center (symbol of growth & progress) to an outdoor gathering space (preservation of community). Lining the courtyard are classrooms which are oriented to maximize the use of passive technologies and create an open facade to the courtyard, allowing for exchanges of views and experience. Between the classroom blocks, interstitial trellised outdoor spaces are formed offering opportunities to expand the classroom beyond the walls formally defined. Integrated in the courtyard are interactive landscape/hardscape elements creating a spatial experience for children to play as they desire and along with areas for seating and paths leading to end destinations.