Faculty Architecture Escuela de Arquitectura by Patrick Schweitzer S&AA is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award de Oro in Diseño de Arquitectura, Edificación y Estructuras Competition Category.
OroArquitectura· 2020
Faculty Architecture Escuela de Arquitectura
Client: S&aa
A' Design Award de Oro Winner in Arquitectura Category
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About Faculty Architecture Escuela de Arquitectura
Faculty Architecture es una escuela de arquitectura en Kigali, Ruanda, proyectada para 600 estudiantes en un terreno de 5.600 metros cuadrados. El diseño parte de un volumen simple de dos niveles. El volumen se separa en lados opuestos, lo que genera un vacío central que conforma un espacio exterior para los estudiantes. Se emplea piedra para la envolvente exterior y hormigón coloreado en masa para el interior. Las ventanas pequeñas se orientan hacia el exterior, mientras que los grandes ventanales interiores quedan protegidos por los voladizos de la cubierta. Las secciones superiores truncadas permiten la entrada de luz natural y mejoran la ventilación.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award de Oro
Faculty Architecture Escuela de Arquitectura ha ganado el A' Design Award de Oro, un reconocimiento inmensamente prestigioso concedido a diseños de primera categoría, maravillosos y sobresalientes. Los ganadores de Oro son creaciones sumamente innovadoras, visionarias y glamorosamente deslumbrantes que reflejan el prodigio, la sabiduría y la destreza de sus diseñadores. Se espera que Faculty Architecture Escuela de Arquitectura sea una invención muy elogiada, pionera y monumental que aporta un valor sin precedentes. Este diseño ganador del A' Design Award de Oro es un proyecto espectacular y respetado que beneficia enormemente y hace avanzar las fronteras del arte, la ciencia, el diseño y la tecnología. Faculty Architecture Escuela de Arquitectura crea intensos sentimientos de deseo, despierta la pasión, fomenta la creatividad y nos 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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