We took on the Senegal Secondary School Challenge, an international competition hosted by Archstorming in collaboration with the NGO Let’s Build My School. The mission was to design a sustainable and replicable educational model for Djilakh, a village where the lack of secondary-level infrastructure forces many students to end their education prematurely.

Our proposal, Secondary School Djilakh, reimagines the traditional school as a community centre. By integrating the Guna Vault, a thermally efficient roofing system, and leveraging local materials such as adobe and terracotta, we developed a design that is not only climate-responsive but also strengthens regional craftsmanship.

This project represents our commitment to humanitarian architecture: creating spaces that offer dignity, foster social inclusion, and provide a sustainable blueprint for the future of rural Senegal.