Before
rapidly constructing a small provisional school in Sabendé in French Guinea, Écochard worked out his role in light of the functions
of local building traditions, on the one hand , which gave him either circular
planes ( yard ) or rectangular plans with semicircular ends ( classes) with
light connections - depending on the orientation - leading to other buildings,
opening either north or south (since we are below the equator), and enabling
the isolation location of classes fom each other. Sanitary facilities were kept
completely separate.