Watch: Maltese Architect Designs Green School Project In Bali And Has Plans For Malta
Maltese architect Jonathan Mizzi, the director of Mizzi Studio, led a project in Bali to design a community learning centre at a “green school”.
The Living Bridge Project at Green School Bali intended to transform the school into a living symbol of regenerative education, community collaboration, and nature-inspired design.
Mizzi, also a Green School parent and mentor, developed a brief with educators for the students to reimagine The Bridge, a co-working and co-learning centre for parents originally founded in 2017 by Chris Thompson and Carol da Riva.
Educators, parents and professionals all pitched in to offer their advice.
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The final project was constructed using over 300 pieces of locally harvested bamboo, shaped using advanced heat-bending techniques developed with local experts Bamboo Pure.
They support a sweeping cantilevered roof, clad using the traditional Indonesian pelupuh system of flattened bamboo shingles.
“In all my years here this is the best community-student-teacher-parent project that I’ve seen,” Thompson said.
Mizzi said he has now turned his focus to creating a Green School Malta, which would encompass education, an elderly care home, an animal sanctuary and gardens, with a a focus on community.
“Malta is small but agile. With the government’s recent green initiatives for Church and state schools, the groundwork is there,” he said.
“This school would build on that momentum – complementing, not replacing, existing systems and positioning Malta as a true lighthouse in the Mediterranean, leading with care, creativity and courage.”
“The Green School nurtures resilience, compassion and leadership, qualities Malta will urgently need in the years to come.”
He is currently seeking partners, educators, funders, landowners and institutions, who share this vision.
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