Asilong featured in ORO’s ‘Creating a Regenerative School’

A new book by ORO, “Creating the Regenerative School” highlights the latest research and exemplary case studies that demonstrate how to design healthy, resilient, and restorative learning environments for students from early childhood education through 12th grade. BNIM’s Asilong Christian High School in Pokot, Kenya along with other stellar schools from around the world is featured as part of this book by Alan Ford, Kate Mraw, and Betsy del Monte.

This is the story of a community imagining a different future for itself, beginning with seeking peace in the region through access to clean water and then enhancing educational opportunities for the primary school graduates. Because of its remote location in northwest Kenya and within a community of subsistence farmers and pastoralists, true sustainability has been the driver for each design decision, including design integration of a severe environment, an engaged community, and local economics. The project is a high school campus that will educate 320 students upon full buildout. Structures accommodate classrooms, offices, dormitories, and teacher housing at its core. The local conditions are harsh by any standard: drastic seasonal swings between dry seasons with harsh equatorial sun and wet seasons with pronounced rainstorms that erode the dry, sparsely planted land with no connection to a municipal water or power system. Design constraints and opportunities are dictated by the place: zero net energy, zero net water, emphasis on regional materials and local labor, and community engagement to ensure generational success.

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Creating the Regenerative School (ORO Publications)