“I wanted to create a compound-like structure that will create a courtyard to protect the student... from the element[s] and... to increase... ventilation systems on adding a... wind tower, and I wanted to use this time laterite.., a construction material in Burkina Faso, but also neglected more and more because people think it is for poor people. ...To get them to be accepted we cut them with a machine. With the cutting they become regular, and with this it has become a modern construction material.”