Last year, two students of KaHo Sint-Lieven made a first draft for a country school in Ecuador. They looked for the optimum combination of a healthy and pleasant indoor climate, without additional charges nor technical novelties.
This year, two new thesis students go a step further. The aim of their thesis is twofold: on the basis of a case study (the draft of the school), the students investigate the process one has to pass through in order to come to this draft. They study every step of the process and work out what is the optimal development of it, socially, economically, technically, procedurally…
Subsequently, they make a manual: a step-by-step plan, a process map, a list with points of interest for the draft of a school building in the South. They identify the stumbling blocks and look for possible solutions: which phase has to be taken charge of by whom? In what order the phases have to be carried out? What do you have to pay attention to in a particular phase of the draft process? Furthermore, they look for possible financial support for the realization of the school.
A scale model is made of the draft that serves as a case. That way, it can be presented in a clear way to the future school children. But as we already pointed out: first, we have to study if this is the correct method of working.