Micro Cosmos
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place that celebrates the diversity of cultures, religions and ethnicities, promoting the human development of students, learning through experience and interpersonal relationships. A space with a pronounced horizontal character, of mutual respect and spiritual growth, based on fellowship, empathy and generosity. Micro Cosmos aims to create a learning environment, educational, social and sporty community, a place that represents the cultural and social diversity of Kenya, bringing together the religions, its different ethnicities, languages and customs, as well as the abundance and variety of landscapes and its exuberant flora and fauna. Micro Cosmos is a patchwork of collective cultural constructions, forged in a space that represents the union in a whole, microcosmos refers to the philosophical idea that every human being is a cosmos itself, therefore we’re all born equal and with the same rights. A laminated wood grid its intersected by a bamboo maden circular fence wich defines the limits of an ordered-modulated system. The program requirements occupies each module according to some parameters, defining an non hierarchical and horizontal space. The bamboo circular fence its not only a green belt of courtyards that acts as a transition between the interior/exterior, but also a filter and termal regulator, with a series of leisure areas.
Exterior view
Multi-sport athletic space and future building expansion area.
Interior view
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