Architectural Pioneering Consultants in association with Wolfgang Rossbauer has designed the Simba Vision Montessori School in Ngabobo Village, Tanzania.

The Simba Vision School provides a unique spatial solution for Montessori teaching in rural northern Tanzania.

Rather than following a traditional school design brief, the spaces developed by the architects and users were designed around the idea of 'Montessori patterns' – spatial ideas derived from the principles of Montessori education.

The school not only sits amidst a vast mountainous backdrop, but Maasai tribes, who are slowly shifting their traditional, semi-nomadic lifestyle to permanent settlements with irrigated agriculture and motorised transportation, form the school’s clientele.

The architecture supports the students undergoing a change of lifestyle by incorporating Montessori design principles.

This project has been shortlisted in the education project category of Dezeen Awards 2023.

Studio: Architectural Pioneering Consultants and Wolfgang Rossbauer
Project: Simba Vision Montessori School
Credits: Wolfgang Rossbauer, Udo Thoennissen, Lorenz Eugster and GMP Consulting Engineers