In recent years, Mozambique has suffered from nationwide inequalities in education and infrastructure. To combat these inequalities, local leaders in the town of Macaneta sought assistance designing a university campus that will increase access to education while promoting sustainability and maintaining affordability. This project, developed as a capstone for the Architectural Engineering department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, provides designs and recommendations for two initial buildings at the Macaneta Beach campus, including mechanical and structural analyses of shipping containers to be used as modular building components. This use of shipping containers helps achieve sustainability and affordability for campus development, and these initial plans will provide the necessary starting point for the mission created by Mozambican partners, allowing this project to be expanded upon in the future.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Ranieri, Elise M.
• Cohn, Natalie L.
• Correia, Anna C.
• Bielawski, Payton S.

Subject

• Learning
• Environment
• Infrastructure
• Innovation
• Community
• Sustainability

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 22316
• E-project-050521-151237

关键词

• Collaborative Design
• Shipping Containers
• Campus Design
• Sustainability
• Mozambique

Advisor

• Van Dessel, Steven
• Krueger, Robert

Year

• 2021

Date created

• 2021-05-05

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Architectural Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright