To address this need, we traveled to South Africa with the Design Clinique a small team of designers to design and build a more suitable structure using reclaimed materials, common tools and local practices. During our first few days abroad, our team performed an audit of this stockpile, carefully noting materials and elements that had unique, and useful, properties: durability, structural integrity, workability or sheer volume. As the assessment continued, and the design advanced, new features emerged, including the central spine of the school. This element, which is made entirely of reclaimed elements, ended up serving a number of important functions for the design, providing a structural element to halve the span required, a secure means to admit natural daylight and air, and various important programmatic assets, including points of entry, secure storage, and play nooks for the children. It also enabled the team to incorporate a butterfly roof into the design – an approach which not only allowed for the gathering of rainwater, but provided an appropriately-scaled section for the space without creating a form that was too massive for its context or the limited means gathered for construction. By the end of the work, the team had built a 650-square foot school for less than $1400 in only 13 days using common tools, accessible means and reclaimed materials.