The school of tires | ARCò - Architettura e Cooperazione

This emergency construction project is included in a wider international cooperation project, in which a Bedouin community decided to build a school for their children in their current camp. The starting constraints were quite complex: absolute prohibition of using cement and foundations, due to the prohibition for the Palestinians of non-temporary artifacts in the area C of the West Bank, velocity and simplicity in the construction; minimum costs and local non-skilled manpower. From these constraints came up a project that brings together the rapid and simple construction with a high-level of comfort conditions. The walls, made of tires fulfilled with earth, and the roof, made with sandwich panels supported by wooden beams were built in just two weeks with a first reduced budget. Thanks to several later donations, the school was completed with all the closing elements including a photovoltaic system for the production of electricity.All the works have been carried out by manpower from the local community, under the technical direction of ARCò.