hopePlate 001 · Gando, Burkina Faso

Gando School

A school of local clay and a floating roof, because a village asked one of its sons to come home and build.

2001 · Diébédo Francis Kéré · Africa

The chamber score

Balafon xylophone suite

Bobo / Mossi · Burkina Faso

Earth architecture, wooden keys. Same clay, different register.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

Kéré's first school, the work that announced a Pritzker architecture of the Sahel.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Gando School through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Gando School was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.