Linha da Serra Project

The school project IS HAPPENING!

Thanks to amazing architects: Marcos Pardana, Paulo Andrade e landscape architect Vania Franck!!!! From MPV Architecture in Fortaleza, CE.

Working together as a group with patience, love and willing to help can create amazing results. It's like a dream come true.

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Funciona! E é fácil! It works, and if I can do it I am sure so can the kids!

Orçamento pronto, pasta pronta, terreno comprado - doações faltando! Mas as coisas estão andando e as pessoas estão sorrindo!

O PROJETO

Temos como projeto uma eco-escola, visando a construção da mesma utilizando técnicas ecologicamente sustentáveis, com materiais reciclados como móveis de pallets e estrutura de moldes plástico, criando assim um espaço de cultura e lazer na EMEIEF Linha da Serra como forma de oferecer as crianças e adolescentes que ali estudam novas oportunidades de aprendizagem como oficinas de teatro, nutrição e meio ambiente.

Queremos desviar a rua, HOJE vamos saber o quanto podemos desapropriar do terreno da frente para podermos fazer isso, no espaço que vai ficar livre, queremos criar um espaço de recreação e uma área verde de educação ambiental com hortas verticais. O muro construído ao redor desta nova área seria apenas de barro, argamassa e garrafas de vidro doados, visando reunir a comunidade, voluntários e alunos para a construção de uma nova escola.

Já ganhamos uma sala construida com moldes plástico reciclado!!!!!!!

THE PROJECT

We have as an eco-school project, aiming to build it using environmentally friendly techniques, recycled materials such as furniture made out of pallets and the structure out of recycled plastic moulds, creating a space for culture and leisure in Guaramiranga, Ceará, Brazil. As a way of offering children and adolescents new learning opportunities such as theater workshops, nutrition and environment.

"The child starting kindergarden this year will graduate in the third decade of the 21st century. All we can know about the world she will step into is that it will have challenges and opportunities beyond what we can imagine today, problems and possibilities that will demand creativity and ingenuity, responsibility and compassion. Whether this year's kindergarden students will merely survive or positively thrive in the decades to come depends in large measure on the experiences she has in school. Those experiences will be shaped by adults, by peers, and ultimately by the places, by the physical environments where she does her learning." - David W. Orr, professor of environmental studies at Oberlin College and leading authority on ecological design.

2012!

Let's start a new project?

We are planning a "Green Classroom" - I'll keep posting the progress, and if there are any ideas, comments or anything, please don't hesitate to write!

On this picture I stopped this silly plan to build a tiny room with less than a meter between the room and the rest of the building (completely useless) and a small place on the other side that could not be used for anything.

The big picture is: walls made out of donated recycled plastic (produced here in Ceará/Brazil), the roof build with donated reforestation wood tiles and the inside tables and shelfs build with used recycled pallets and painted by the children with eco earth based paint.

Last interview with Mrs Roza Flor, school director.

And the stars grew fast!

Analysing what I have - the difference between the likert scale doing individually and in group is quite big, and boys x girls is quite amazing, boys seem to have so much more opinions, seem more brave to give their true opinion.

The drawings, done on the 11/08, like the school is, and on the 16/08, their dream school. They do not know any school besides their own, but I can see that on the 16th they understood what I was doing there, and seem to want to show what they wish would be different. I gave them a lot of colors, and they wanted to use them all. They used happy colors, some drew the nature outside - but the most impressive are the chairs, they really seem to want better ones, where the table is separate from the chair, and gives them more space to work.

I was sent this photo today from back home.