架构师提供的文本描述。“稀缺与创意工作室”(SCS)是一个设计建筑工作室，其重点是从绘画到建筑的翻译。工作室的主要目标是让学生接触到完整的建筑过程，从与客户的互动到构建他们的设计。设计过程被组织为学生之间的建筑竞赛。他们开始提出个别的建议，并在逐步取消的过程中，达成最有潜力的项目，也就是正在建造的项目。

Text description provided by the architects. The Scarcity and Creativity Studio (SCS) is a design build studio whose focus is on the translation from drawings to building. The studio’s main aim is to expose students to the full architectural process, from interacting with clients to building their designs. The design process is organized as an architectural competition amongst students. They start producing individual proposals, and in a process of gradual eliminations, arrive at the project with most potential that is the one that is built.

这座建筑的项目是在肯尼亚基里菲的一个农村地区的一个教室和一个小的图书馆/学习区。这些需求加上赤道气候下的舒适性研究，当地的乡土建筑，以及当地可用的材料，都是影响这一项目的因素。

The program for this building was for a classroom and a small library/study area, in a rural part of Kilifi, Kenya. These requirements plus the study of comfort in an equatorial climates, the vernacular architecture of the area, and the available local materials have been the factors that have shaped this project. 

 Floor Plan

该遗址位于植被之间的天然空地上。气候需要一个阴凉但非常开放的空间，微风可以自由流动。教室与图书馆之间隔着一个遮荫的庭院，一边朝学校的公共户外区域开放，另一边在一棵大树下的自然户外教学区。场地的10%坡度被用来创建一个阶梯教室，以方便学生与老师接触，并将屋顶排入两个5000升的水箱中。

The site was located in a natural clearing amongst vegetation. The climate required a shaded but very open space through which the breezes could flow freely. The classroom is separated from the library by a shaded courtyard, open, on one side, towards the school’s common outdoor area, and to the other side a natural outdoor teaching area under an enormous tree. The 10% slope of the site is used to create a stepped classroom to facilitate student contact with the teacher, and to drain the roof into two 5000 litres water tanks.

 Longitudinal Section

该项目的两个主要贡献是社会和类型学。

The two main contributions that this project makes are social and typological.

SCS建造的教室和图书馆是对免费教育的重大贡献，在这个国家，即使是国家的教育费用也无法由很大一部分人口负担。建筑材料的费用来自奥斯陆建筑公司的捐款。

The classroom and library built by SCS are a significant contribution to free education in a country in which even state education costs cannot be afforded by a significant portion of the population. The costs of the building materials were funded through donations from architectural firms in Oslo.

该项目为热带教室提出了一种新的类型学，它与肯尼亚的标准公立学校建筑有很大的不同。该建筑提供：室内和室外教学的阴影空间；它最大限度地利用自然通风，特别是来自室外遮阳区域的微风；它提供了室内外教学的选择；它整合了联合国宣布为“干旱灾区”的一个国家的雨水收集。

The project proposes a new typology for a tropical classroom, one which is very different from the standard  state school buildings in Kenya. The building provides: shaded spaces for both indoor and outdoor teaching; it maximizes natural ventilation, especially the breezes coming from outdoor shaded areas; it provide the option of indoor and outdoor teaching; it integrates water collection from rainwater in a country declared ‘drought disaster area’ by the United Nations