Eco Factor: Prefab classroom conserves, collects and generates natural resources.
Designed by award-winning design firm Anderson Anderson Architecture, the “Energy Neutral Portable Classroom” aims to provide an optimized educational environment for students and teachers, while keeping sustainability principals in mind. It collects, generates and conserves natural resources, including electrical energy, daylight, wind energy, and rainwater. The prefabricated building includes a steel frame and steel and rigid foam sandwich panel floor and roof system that maximize insulation and heat reflection.
The eco-friendly classroom features solar panels on the roof that generate clean energy. Interior surfaces are low VOC products, while exposed beams are FSC certified parallams. Recycled rice straw panels add to the aesthetics of the inner space. The building comprises of two or three easily transportable modules, facilitating ease of transport and reuse in the future to minimize waste. The transport efficient, functional, affordable and easy of maintain classroom is designed to minimize environmental impact and maximize contribution to a healthy indoor environment.
