Eco Architecture: Elleray Preparatory School unveils sun-powered tree-top classrooms

I have yet to visit the “nation’s first” Zero Energy Building, the namers of which have probably forgotten that our kampong pondoks once were zero energy as well, until they pulled a power cable off the main street and into the kampong.

Perhaps going back to those basics is a school built from recycled material that looks really cool – a prep school on stilts in a tree – the kids won’t want to come home!

From ecofriend.org:

…The three pods that make up the Forest School stand on silts connected by a central platform made from recycled plastic milk bottles and wood shavings. The units are constructed from ribbed timber frame set upon Douglas fir stilts and then clad in English chestnut shingles…