ObiWan Elementary

Project: Proposed Elementary School
Location; Owerri, Nigeria
Client; Obinna Okoro

Architects; Howells House Studios
Lead Architect; Arc. Howells N. Onyema

 In a tropical landscape and an almost flat land of the municipality of Owerri, this school was built as start up for a visionary elementary and secondary school. Around a wide area of residential buildings this building stands out a home away from home for children, asymmetric composition of regular forms forming a most unique facade on a landscaped perimeter, with corridors to the interior, and silent facades to the outside.

Reception 1

Junior Class Room

The school derives its character and identity from a warm and inspiring colour scheme that is present on the exterior as well as the interior; the colours of the building’s facades and windows are also found in the colours of the interior. 

Reception 2

Reception 3

Senior Class Room

The learning environment is designed to be stimulating, permissive and promote collaboration through its organization of space and attention to details. Acoustic panels and colourful soundproofing boards are important elements in the interior while at the same time contributing to an excellent acoustic environment.

 A generous number of windows and exits to the gables’ balconies provide visual contact with the surrounding greenery and the schoolyard’s vegetation.

A frame structure in reinforced concrete, receives solid block walls finished with brick and metal roof beams. All classrooms have cross ventilation, and enjoy the distant landscape. From a distance, the building behaves like a singular mark in the landscape.