Faculty Architecture Escola d'Arquitectura by Patrick Schweitzer S&AA is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award d'Or in Disseny d'Arquitectura, Edificació i Estructures Competition Category.
OrArquitectura· 2020
Faculty Architecture Escola d'Arquitectura
Client: S&aa
A' Design Award d'Or Winner in Arquitectura Category
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About Faculty Architecture Escola d'Arquitectura
Faculty Architecture és una escola d'arquitectura a Kigali, Ruanda, planificada per a 600 estudiants en un solar de 5.600 metres quadrats. El disseny parteix d'un volum senzill de dues plantes. El volum es descompon per costats oposats, la qual cosa crea un buit central que forma un espai exterior per als estudiants. S'utilitza pedra per a l'envolupant exterior i formigó acolorit en massa per a l'interior. Les finestres petites miren cap enfora, mentre que les grans finestres orientades cap a l'interior queden protegides del sol pels voladissos de la coberta. Les seccions superiors truncades aporten llum natural i milloren la ventilació.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award d'Or
Faculty Architecture Escola d'Arquitectura és un guanyador del guardó A' Design Award d'Or, un reconeixement immensament prestigiós concedit a dissenys de primera categoria, meravellosos i extraordinaris. Els guanyadors d'Or són creacions summament innovadores, molt visionàries i gloriosament enlluernadores que reflecteixen el prodigi, la saviesa i la destresa dels seus dissenyadors. Es preveu que Faculty Architecture Escola d'Arquitectura sigui un invent molt elogiat, pioner en tendències i monumental, que aporta un valor sense precedents. Aquest disseny guanyador del guardó A' Design Award d'Or és un projecte espectacular i respectat que beneficia molt i fa avançar els límits de l'art, la ciència, el disseny i la tecnologia. Faculty Architecture Escola d'Arquitectura crea sentiments intensos de desig, evoca passió, fomenta la creativitat i ens fascina.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The firm responded to an international call for tender launched in March 2012 by the government of Rwanda for the design of a new architecture school to accommodate 600 students on a 5,600 sq.m. site not far from the existing faculty. For this project we began with a simple form on two levels which we distorted in the same way tectonic forces distort land masses: we pulled on opposite sides, making a gap in the centre that would form the outside area for the students.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The project does 5 600 square metres
- Tags
- Rwanda, school, architecture, Kigali
- Production Technology
- The building uses two simple materials commonly found in the region: stone for the exterior envelope; and self-coloured concrete for the interior. The building has small outward-facing windows and large inward-facing windows protected from the sun by roof overhangs.
- Design Challenge
- The difficulty of the project was to manage it from France, with a relay on site and to use only local materials.
- Research
- The firm opted for a highly architectural project using complex forms, driven by both pedagogical and environmental concerns, halfway between traditional architecture and contemporary design. This is a simple, didactic building designed to train the future architects of a developing African country whose population is set to double by 2050.
- Inspiration
- The building uses two simple materials commonly found in the region: stone for the exterior envelope; and self-coloured concrete for the interior. The building has small outward-facing windows and large inward-facing windows protected from the sun by roof overhangs. The upper section of the pyramids is truncated in order to bring in natural light and optimise ventilation.
- Project Duration
- Kigali at Rwanda
2017 to 2018 - Operation Flow
- The firm responded to an international call for tender launched in March 2012 by the government of Rwanda for the design of a new architecture school to accommodate 600 students on a 5,600 sq.m. site not far from the existing faculty.
- Patents
- SetAA
- Team Members
- Architect of record : SetAA
Associate architect : EAACON
Construction : EGIS
Entreprise : CATIC
Landscape architect : Acte 2 paysage - Image Credits
- Photo : Edwin SEda, Emmanuel Cattier, Jules Toulet
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