Last but most imporantly: The Factories

The factories are split up by starch in one building and alcohol in another. In between the two factory buildings you can see a power house and a loading dock.

There is a lobby, changing room, bathroom, office, lounge, and wash up area in each building, as required for each of the factories.

Since the tubers only last a day or two after they've been harvested before they begin deteriorating, the tubers have to be produced into the product the same day they are harvested.

There are two refrigerated storage units, one for the newly picked, peeled and washed tubers, and one for the finished product. They are easily accessible from the outside, in the loading dock area. The one holding the unfinished tubers will only be refrigerated during the day, by the end of the day, all tubers must be used up, so the refrigerator can be shut off over night.

from left to right in the section is the lounge, the wash area (and door into the factory space), and the locker and lavatory room.

The classroom building is made up of 2 floors, 6 classrooms, and 2 open offices. The balconies and roof supply ample shade for the rooms, and plenty of walking and sitting space as well.

Each classroom can comfortably fit about 30 students, along with plenty of teaching space in the front. It is terraced to accommodate the hill it has been placed on (the same will the housing and daycare is on).

The Day care and Classroom building

The daycare is available for any families who are learning and working here at the complex. It is a simple open plan, allowing plenty of room for play.

Positioned on the top of the hill, it offers views of the entire site, including the factories and farm land.

The skylight accent of the housing complexes is continued and clearly articulated in the covered exterior play space.

The Housing complexes

There are 40 single-occupant studios, since this is more of a vocational school and less of an orphanage, the students/employees could use some more privacy, so it is not set up dormitory-style. There are 8 family studios. The picture to the left shows the interior of a family studio.

Each studio has a bed, closet, small kitchen space, and bathroom space. Family studios just have two beds, instead of one; and two small closets instead of one.

The plumbing in Haiti is not necessarily modern, so the toilets would work mostly by gravity, sharing a wall for the sake of material use.

Each studio has a semi-private patio space, they do share a wooden "screen," a row of concrete columns separating each patio from the one next to it. There is also a "screen" - like skylight above each patio, the 6" openings continuing from the windows of each studio's entryway. This allows for ample shading along with allowing some articulated lighting into the space.

This is a section through the middle of the complex, it shows a single-occupant (right) and family studio (left) on each floor. You can see the different materials coming together to make a delicate composition between the white-washed brick and white-washed concrete.

The building to the left of this housing complex is the daycare. Behind is the second housing complex, exactly identical to this one. This would be the South-eastern corner of the site.

The complex

In the top left corner of this hilly site, south of Port au Prince, you will find the housing complexes, a day care to the right of them, and a class and work out building below. The starch and ethanol factories are on a separate hill more towards the middle of the site.

The housing complexes are made up of mostly single occupancy studios. There are, however, eight family studios (having more than one bed). The buildings consist of a concrete skeleton and brick in between with a paneling facade. The windows are mostly the tall, thin, vertical screens with wide accent windows through out. Stairs are clearly marked by the columns surrounding them.

The factories are separated from the rest of the complex because of potential noise and toxins. The Cassava plant will be throughout the site, mostly between the two hills that the different buildings sit on.

Cassava Production

The production of Alcohol involves:
- peeling roots (tubers)
- washing
- grating
- cooking in a jet cooker
- fermenting
- distilling
- bottling

this produces 280 litres per tonne, roughly 4,000 litres per day at 96% and 10,000 litres per day at 40%.

The production of Starch includes:
- peeling
- washing
- rasping/grating/pulping
- filtering
- settling
- purification (starch washing)
- dewatering (pressing in clean bag)
- drying/toasting
- milling/packaging