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I was lost between borders. Hungarian nomad born in the Ottoman Empire stuck in Egypt, living in the Nubian desert, surviving, being a Magyarab cattle herder, smoking hashish on the fucking road. Don't you think I want to get some kind of adjustment against the Sultan?
In 2007, Noella Coursaris Musunka, a Congolese model who lost her father at age five and was sent to Europe because her mother could not afford school fees, went back to Kalebuka, the village outside Lubumbashi where she came from, and built a school for the girls whose story mirrored her own.
What she built was not a painted concrete block dropped on a plot and called a school. The Georges Malaika Foundation and studioMDA designed a courtyard campus where clusters of classrooms are turned at slight angles to maximize light and air movement, covered by double roofs that catch the breeze and induce natural ventilation without a single air conditioner. The bricks are compressed soil blocks made from the earth on site, chosen specifically because burned bricks were driving deforestation across the region. Large overhangs prevent direct sun from striking the glazing. Photovoltaic panels power the building. Constructed wetlands clean and recycle the water. A garden grows food for the students on site.
People will ask why it was not painted white. That is exactly the wrong question. Bare brick in this climate does not show the red soil stains that painted walls collect after every rain. It does not peel. It does not need repainting every two years. It gets more dignified as it ages, not less.
Most public buildings across this continent are designed with no thought given to ventilation, maintenance or the climate they sit in. This school was designed to outlast the people who built it.
That is what building for Africa should look like.
๐ Georges Malaika Foundation School, Kalebuka, Lubumbashi, DRC Architect: studioMDA Photo: Courtesy of the Georges Malaika Foundation