今年夏天，10名年轻的建筑学学生加入了Orkidstudio，在短短7周时间内，以每平方米100英镑的价格在赞比亚工业区铜带的农村郊区建造了一个350平方米的设施。

Ten young students of architecture joined Orkidstudio this summer to build a 350 square metre facility in just 7 weeks and for only £100/m2 in the rural outskirts of Zambia’s industrial Copperbelt.

Orkidstudio是一个人道主义设计组织，由三名建筑学学生于2008年成立，其目的是通过创新和创造性的建筑和设计，使世界各地的儿童和社区受益。该工作室在乌干达、玻利维亚和赞比亚完成了一些项目，其动力来自于对建筑作为变革催化剂的强烈关注，通过一个包容的、合作主导的设计过程和现场建造计划，增强社区的能力并灌输自豪感。之前在2012年复活节为穆特尼德儿童村建造了一个鸡舍，作为社区商业活动，这一阶段旨在帮助穆特尼德孤儿院附近的哈罗德-姆文格纪念学院的发展。Mutende为孤儿和被遗弃的儿童提供了在一个充满爱的家庭环境中得到照顾的机会，而学校则为更多的当地儿童提供教育。

Orkidstudio is a humanitarian design organisation, founded in 2008 by three students of architecture, whose aim is to benefit children and communities worldwide through innovative and creative architecture and design. With projects completed in Uganda, Bolivia and Zambia, the studio is driven by a strong focus on architecture as a catalyst for change which empowers and instils pride within a community through an inclusive, collaboratively-led design process and live build programme. Having previously built a chicken shed in Easter 2012 as a community business endeavour for The Mutende Children’s Village, this phase sought to aid the development of the Mutende’s Harold Mwenge Memorial Academy on a site adjacent to the orphanage. The Mutende offer opportunities for orphans and abandoned children to be cared for in a loving, family environment, whilst the school provides education to many more of the local children.

在现场工作开始前的近一年时间里，志愿者征集活动启动，从英国的建筑学校中选出了10名申请人。在Orkidstudio的带领下，这个团队设计了一个社区大厅，能够被细分为三个教室、一个IT套件、办公室和供应室。这些新设施几乎使现有的学习空间增加了一倍，使学校能够为该地区更多的儿童提供教育。

With a call for volunteers launched almost a year before work started on site, ten applicants were selected from architecture schools across the UK. Led by Orkidstudio, this team designed a community hall capable of being sub-divided into three classrooms, an IT suite, office and supply room. These new facilities have almost doubled the existing study space and enable the school to provide education for significantly more children in the area.

场地上已经有了一个简单的L型教室，新的结构模仿了场地后部现有的屋顶间距，然后在一个可变坡度的蛇腹式天棚下层层推进。屋顶的设计给人的印象是一个单一的铝箔片向入口处折叠，屋顶悬空，欢迎游客进入下面的阴凉空间。

With a simply L-shaped classroom block already on the site, the new structure mimics the existing roof pitch at the rear of the site before cascading forwards below a variably-pitched concertinaed canopy. Designed to give the impression of a single foil sheet folding out towards the entrance, the roof cantilevers out and welcomes visitors into the shaded space below.

考虑到仅有七周的紧张施工进度，该设计允许多个行业同时在现场操作。木质结构没有采用混凝土板基础，而是坐落在大型钢筋混凝土垫层上。烧制的泥砖墙像皮肤一样环绕着结构，相应地划分了空间。像这样的建筑部件位于主结构之外，不承担结构性负荷，因此能够在整个工程计划中以更灵活的时间表运行。

Given the extremely tight build schedule of just seven weeks, the design allowed for multiple trades to operate on site at once. Instead of a concrete slab foundation, the timber structure sits on large reinforced concrete pads. Fired mud-brick walls wrap around the structure like a skin, dividing spaces accordingly. Components of the building such as this sit off the primary structure, bearing no structural loads, and therefore capable of operating on a more flexible schedule within the full programme of works.

为了抵御白蚁侵袭造成的退化，木质结构被设置在地基上，比地面高出800mm。通过与创新工程公司StructureMode的紧密合作，这个雄心勃勃的自建项目在设计上减少了结构尺寸和规格，在不影响内部空间的情况下，与非洲产品和制造的不规则性相配合。

In an effort to counteract degradation due to termite infestation, the timber structure is set off the foundation pads and a clear 800mm above floor level. Working closely with innovative engineering firm, StructureMode, this ambitious self-build was designed with reduced structural sizes and specifications which worked with the irregularities of African products and manufacturing, without compromising the internal spaces.

在整个学期的工作中，Orkidstudio团队能够与儿童、教师和当地社区接触，讨论他们对学校的愿景，并在整个过程中作出改变，以提供符合学校日常生活的空间。新结构的形式在学校的中心创造了一个新的庭院空间。为了庆祝这个空间和过渡到新建筑的大型有顶棚，周边的砖石基座在柱基周围升起，在儿童和成人的高度上制作非正式的座位。大的图形文字和数字俏皮地标识着每间教室，大的水沟托盘延伸到院子里，在下面形成水的收集点，并在下面的通道中容纳电力服务核心。

Working throughout term time, the Orkidstudio team were able to engage with the children, teachers and local community to discuss their vision for the school and changes were made throughout in order to provide spaces which responded to the daily life of the school. The form of the new structure creates a new courtyard space at the heart of the school. To celebrate this space and the transition into the large covered canopy of the new build, the perimeter masonry footing rises up around the column bases to craft informal seating at both child and adult heights. Large graphic lettering and numbers playfully identify each classroom and large gutter trays extend into the courtyard creating water collection points below and housing electrical service cores within the channels below.

在完成这个项目后，志愿者和建筑学学生Frazer Haviz评论说：”有机会设计和建造具有社会和建筑价值的东西，看到它从会谈到草图到图纸，最后到一个已解决的建筑，是真正不可思议的事情。不是每天都有机会成为这样一个独特经历的一部分，能够成为穆特纳德项目II的一部分是一种巨大的荣幸。

After finishing the project, volunteer and architecture student, Frazer Haviz, commented: ‘The chance to design and build something of social and architectural value, seeing it grow from talks to sketches to drawings and finally to a resolved building is something truly incredible. It is not every day the opportunity arises to be part of such a unique experience as this and it was an immense privilege to be a part of the Mutende Project II’.

Orkidstudio现在专注于塞拉利昂和肯尼亚的项目，参与这两个项目的申请目前在www.orkidstudio.co.uk/volunteer。此外，该组织还参与了加纳的一个项目，该项目由麦金托什建筑学院（格拉斯哥艺术学院）负责，Orkidstudio的主任詹姆斯-米切尔是人道主义建筑方面的讲师和辅导员。

Orkidstudio is now focusing on projects in Sierra Leone and Kenya, with applications to be a part of both currently open at www.orkidstudio.co.uk/volunteer. Additionally, the organisation is involved with a project in Ghana which is being run by the Mackintosh School of Architecture (Glasgow School of Art) where Orkidstudio Director, James Mitchell, is a lecturer and tutor in humanitarian architecture.

Architects: Orkidstudio
Area: 350 m²
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of Orkidstudio
Country:Zambia