{"id":26,"date":"2010-11-08T03:58:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T03:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/architect\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2017-01-04T16:50:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T16:50:58","slug":"the-mayan-school","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/architect\/?page_id=26","title":{"rendered":"The Mayan School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/architect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IDJK_west800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-325 alignleft\" title=\"Instituto Diversificado Jolom Konob'\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/architect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IDJK_west800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/architect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IDJK_west800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/architect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IDJK_west800-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Santa\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Eulalia, Guatemala 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>8,000sf high school<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a community with staggering poverty, education is often the only way out. In the spring of 2010 I donated architectural services to help the people of Santa Eulalia, Guatemala and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.computersforguatemala.com\" target=\"_blank\">Computers for Guatemala<\/a> build the\u00a0<em>Instituto Diversificado Jolom Konob&#8217;<\/em> , a high school and teachers&#8217; college in highland Guatemala. Classes are taught not only in Spanish but Q&#8217;anjob&#8217;al, an ancient dialect spoken by these Mayan people. The design incorporates traditional Mayan symbology and form, giving them a building that can be a source of civic pride and ownership in a time when &#8220;being Mayan&#8221; is often a stigma.\u00a0One of the greatest challenges was to design the facility so it could be built using semiskilled labor and a limited supply of tools and materials, presented with drawings simple enough that they could be understood by the largely illiterate workforce.<\/p>\n<p>The project was <a href=\"http:\/\/sketchupdate.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/school-for-mayan-teachers.html\" target=\"_blank\">published by Google in their SketchUp blog<\/a>, and appeared at the Google booth at the 2010 American Institute of Architects national convention.<\/p>\n<p>Yujwal dyos, hemasanil!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-179\" title=\"The Mayan School, Santa Eulalia Guatemala\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/architect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/idjk_800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/architect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/idjk_800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/architect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/idjk_800-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa\u00a0Eulalia, Guatemala 2010 8,000sf high school In a community with staggering poverty, education is often the only way out. In the spring of 2010 I donated architectural services to help the people of Santa Eulalia, Guatemala and\u00a0Computers for Guatemala build the\u00a0Instituto Diversificado Jolom Konob&#8217; , a high school and teachers&#8217; college in highland Guatemala. Classes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":24,"menu_order":25,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/architect\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/architect\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/architect\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/architect\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/architect\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/architect\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/architect\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/358"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/architect\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/architect\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}