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.
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