Francis Kéré’s education campus in Kenya is inspired by termites Francis Kéré’s education campus in Kenya is inspired by termites Francis Kéré’s perfectly ventilated, termite-inspired Kenyan education campus, SLAK, is a breath of fresh air by Lake Turkana Turkana County in Kenya is a large expanse of beautiful yet arid land of low bushes and occasional trees, home to Lake Turkana, the country’s largest landlocked body of water and the biggest desert lake in the world. Termite mounds, buzzing with activity and up to several metres high, are dotted around the region’s gently undulating landscape. It was these tall structures that first caught the eye of Berlin-based architect Francis Kéré when he started researching the area for one of his latest commissions – a sustainable education campus on the lake’s banks.