DesignBuild: Students Building in Kabul, 2003

The Soria High School is a Girls school and was completely destroyed by the civil war. When we arrived, the girls where taught in two shifts, two classes a time in tents from the UNO.

After the projects was finished, coloured school pavilions and the two extra facilities used as Library and Teachers Assembly-Room where occupied.

After we left Kabul in October 2003, the school pavilions as well as the final works on the entrance pavilions where completed by the German development agency GTZ and Afghan craftsman and form now the new school compound. As the school was was painted in bright colours, the school is named now the coloured school in Kabul. The pavilions are well maintained and the differentiated spaces well used.

Revue 2005 damage at the attic
We could not control the finishing of the roof of the library and teachers room. As a consequence, some mistakes regarding the impermeability where made. Water filters through the stones that cover the attic and is damaging the light-weight clay insulation and the plaster.

Siteplan of the whole school, the school pavilions were built by the GIZ/ AGEF, the designbuild project realized two of the entrance pavilions (red) the green buildings are the first reconstructed classroom buildings, realized by the GIZ
Collaborators:
FG Prof. Rainer Mertes + FG Prof. Dr. Klaus Rückert -TU Berlin, the University of Kabul, Consultant BGS/dmp, GiZ, AGEF, KFW, DAAD amongst others.
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