Home away from home-school at Mamelodi

Abstract

Maria Montessori argued that a school should be a second home for children. But the purist might object to the idea that the school should be anything other than a school. When you go to any city, any town or any village, you can easily identify whether a building is a school or not, irrespective of whether it is a good piece of architecture or not. The institutional nature of the type is always overbearingly present. Therefore to design such an institution/school is a commonplace; it is a more sophisticated business to remove that rigidity in order to make something more significant for children, or as Montessori perhaps meant: that feels like a home.