The design of a school model rural school for the rural Transkei, province of the Eastern Cape

This treatise investigates the issues and processes involved in the school provision systems used to provide schools in the former Transkei area of the Eastern Cape. The purpose of the treatise is to better understand the contextual, spatial, physical and theoretical nature of the rural areas at present of the Transkei and how these provision systems have responded to this. From this understanding a set of architectural issues are identified from which an appropriate building is designed, along with an appropriate provision system. Several precedents of provision systems used in the Transkei are investigated, along with several architectural precedents according to their particular responses. This is done in order to uncover the spatial relationships, material and physical aspects, as well as theoretical issues, from which an appropriate architectural language can be identified. The need for the provision systems to be investigated is established along with the identification of four sites within the Transkei area which are to be investigated. The selected site on which the design will be implemented is located on a tar road between Dutya and Willowvale as it has similar attributes to most existing school sites in the former Transkei and therefore functions as a good testing ground for developing an appropriate design that can be implemented on multiple sites. In order for the design of the provision system and building to be appropriate, an in-depth contextual analysis is done on the Transkei area as a whole from which a set of constraints and informants are derived to better guide the design