EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS
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Building a Legacy of Education in Mauritius ...
Schools and Colleges in Mauritius are growing and changing. Student populations are increasing. Historical facilities require modernization, new technology needs to be incorporated,and new campuses must be constructed. The J&A Team understand the complexities and specific requirements of building learning institutions. Our extensive experience in planning, managing and building public and private institutions of higher learning has greatly benefited the education sector in the island.
Where Do You Want Your Kids to Go to School Today?
We all care for our kids and want the best for them, including the best schools. When J&A Architects approaches the planning, managing and building of a new school (or the renovation of an existing one), we approach the project as if we were building for our own kids — because in most cases, we are. We live in the communities where we work, and have a vested interest in our neighborhoods, our communities and our schools.
Our Perspective
Sharing your passion and enthusiasm for creating the best schools for our communities is the key to a successful project. Our extensive experience in planning, managing and building public and private educational facilities has benefited the overall population.
N.B - Projects market with an * has been executed under DSA Co. Ltd.
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Fine Arts Building *
The Mahatma Gandhi Institute has been very successful in the past years and badly needed space for the development of the Arts department. A very land prominent on top of a hill overlooking the highway at Reduit was made available. A master plan was developed and only the Sculpture and Painting Studio has been implemented. The building had to reflect Indian culture. Circular arches characteristic of indian architecture give additionally a rhythm and an institutional character to the building.
Client: Mahatma Gandhi Institute
Location: Réduit
Project Cost: 5 Million
Design/ Completion: 1999 - 2000
Size: 200 sqm
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State Secondary Schools *
Turnkey projects with three diff erent contractors on three diff erent sites.Two girl schools and one boy school with the same design philosophy of a central courtyard enabling the rector to control the whole school from his office.
Client: Ministry of Education
Location: Surinam /Bel Air/ La Tour Koenig
Project Value: 70 M/ 63.6 M/ 69 M
Design/completion: 1997 - 1998
Size: 7,200 sqm
Client: Ministry of Social Security
Location: Beau Bassin
Project Value: MUR 70 Million
Design/ Completion: 2000 / -
Size: ?? sqm
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New Administrative Complex - MIE
Mauritius Institute of Education has been providing training to the teaching staff over the past decades through in-house and distance education facilities the dynamic growth of its services has resulted in needs for additional space on the campus compound. Two 10-meter span offi ce wings on either side of a central core grouping staircases, lifts and utilities was the option retained for an efficient office block. Th e building is a mixed steel/concrete structure.
Client: Mauritius Institute of Education
Location: Réduit
Project Value: MUR 50 M
Design/completion: 1993 - 1996
Size: 4, 500 sqm
Examination Centre *
This building implemented in two phases offers examination facilities to the ever increasing needs of the student population. The basement offers secure storage facilities for examination papers whereas the four storeys above comprise examination rooms. The last floor house a spacious multi purpose hall that can accommodate 300 sitting persons. The overall design of the building aims at blending all the buildings of the University campus into a harmonious ensemble.
Client: Mauritius Examination Syndicate
Location: Réduit
Cost: 55 M
Design/ Completion: 1996 - 2001
Size: 3,200 sqm
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Lycée Labourdonnais *
Originally situated at the corner of two very busy and dangerous streets at Curepipe, the Lycée Labourdonnais French medium primary school wanted a more serene setting for the fast growing and successful school. A domaine was purchased at Forest Side and a restricted architectural competition was held. Our proposal keeps the architecture of the school in line with the old colonial house that had to be demolished to make way for the school.
Client: Compagnie Labourdonnais
Location: Curepipe
Project Cost: 60 Million
Design/ Completion: 1999 / -
Size: ???
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Extension of Clavis School *
Clavis school is an English medium pre-primary and primary school catering for the needs of mostly expatriates’ children. Th ough very expensive, it has proved to be very successful even to Mauritians by providing an alternative to CPE rat race. Set beautifully at the foot of the Moka range Mountains, it provides the scene and peaceful atmosphere for learning.
Client: Clavis Primary English Medium School
Location: Moka
Project Cost: ??
Design/ Completion: 1999 / -
Size: ??
Le Bocage - New Library & Gymnasium
This private school initially catered for the education of the children of the English speaking expatriates. Over the years due to the inadequacy of the local education system, mauritians were admitted. Very quickly there was tremendous pressure for expansion due to the growing demand for admission. The school located on a very slopy ground at Moka near the Moka range mountains offers little adequate land for expansion.
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Primary/ pre-primary school
Private French medium schools have been very successful for the French community in particular and for Franco-Mauritian and Mauritian at large. To cater for the needs of a growing community at Tamarin and to resolve the problem of long transport distance to Curepipe, it was decided to start a French school at Tamarin. A restricted design competition was launched on a very picturesque site bordering the Tamarin River.
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Lycée Polytechnique *
Design competition for a new Lycée Polytechnique at Camp Levieux/Rose Hill. Th e proposal is a spread-out building with good natural ventilation and a pleasant architecture with steel roofs.
Client: Ministry of Education
Location: Camp Levieux
Project Value: MUR 60 M
Design/completion: 1995 / -
Size: 4, 200 sqm
Client: Ecole Paul & Virginie
Location: Tamarin
Project Cost: MUR 40 M
Design: 2002 / -
Size: 4,943 sqm
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Client: Ministry of Education
Location: Malabar, Rodrigues
Project Cost: 20 Million
Design/ Completion: 1997 - 1999
Size: 1,500 sqm
Human Resource Centre *
Turnkey design competition. Rodrigues needed for the development of full potential a human resource centre to guide Rodriguans in an ever-growing economy. Situated on a steep hillside the project takes full advantage of the topography to generate split levels and mark its institutional character.
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John Kennedy College *
Design competition-winning entry. The proposal suggests a development respecting the pattern of the existing facilities with good natural ventilation and panoramic view over the mountains and the sea and without disruption to the running of the school.
Client: John Kennedy College
Location: Beau Bassin
Project Value: 60 M
Design: 1995 / -
Size: 3,500 sqm
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Primary School - Valentina*
We have further incorporated, a football playing fi eld within close visual proximity of the main Administration block for an overall supervision aspect. Also a central internal courtyard has been provided for. All these facilities have also been provided with handicap access facilities such as ramps.
One or two primary schools launched through a design and build competition. Th e concept is the inevitable courtyard with however buildings sealed to march the occupants. Th e main multi-purpose hall has been strategically located at the entrance of the complex so as to regulate the movement of the students and visitor’s directly to the hall, without having them to move within the core of the complex. Th e Architectural treatment tends to further emphasize its visual appeal by juxtaposing a combination of varied materials such as Basalt Stone walls intersecting with rendered blockwalls with grooves, owever balancing it with the overall architectural treatment of the complex as a whole.
Client: Ministry of Education
Location: Valentina
Project Value: 25 M
Design/completion: 2000 / -
Size: 3,000 Sqm
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Primary School - Grand Sable*
The main entrance is taken from the entrance road on the east through a 5.0 m wide entrance gate. Besides, a separate pedestrian access 1.5 m wide is also provided. The scheme makes an additional provision for a bus lay-by along the southern state road for convenience of students commuting by the public transport. A separate service access is provided along the state road on the south. The salient features of the design include most favorable orientation for ll classrooms open space structuring to enable favorable conditions rom wind separate winter and summer courts off ering favorable solar conditions during the warm as well as cold weather.Deep overhangs, and mple window protection from the north sun. The Government of Mauritius proposes to construct a New Primary School at Grand Sable for the Ministry of Education and Scientific Research. Th e proposed New Primary school is intended to cater to this emerging community and provides for a separate preprimary unit besides a 13-classroom primary school with all facilities for modern education. One or two primary schools launched through a design and build competition. The concept is the inevitable courtyard with however buildings sealed to march the occupants
Client: Ministry of Education
Location: Grand Sable
Project Value: 25 M
Design/completion: 2000 / -
Size: 3,000 Sqm
It was therefore decided to build a library and ancillary facilities on top of the existing buildings and liberate the previous library for classrooms. A new gymnasium has been built further down on the land after important earthworks.
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Extension Works at Droopnath Ramphul Polytechnique *
The manager and his team must be able to easily control and circulate from the Administration/ Library Block at the entrance to all the teaching and planning areas. Th erefore a straightforward circulation system with all blocks gathered around a triangular central courtyard has been designed. The scheme is intentionally simple with construction cost singled out as greatest potential element of concern. Th school has been separated into diff erent blocks having common identities.
The entrance is graced with an administration cum library building giving it a sense of identity and focus point. Two classroom blocks namely the IT Block and the Business Administration Block. The triangle courtyard is then completed with the gymnasium and student centre. The toilet blocks are all located so as to enable the wind from the South and South East to blow away the bad smells from the working areas.
Client: Ministry of Education
Location: Pamplemousses
Project Value: MUR 60 M
Design/completion: 1997 / -
Size: 6,160 Sqm
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