Faculty Architecture École d'architecture by Patrick Schweitzer S&AA is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award d'Or in Design d'Architecture, Bâtiment et Structure Competition Category.
OrArchitecture· 2020
Faculty Architecture École d'architecture
Client: S&aa
A' Design Award d'Or Winner in Architecture Category
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About Faculty Architecture École d'architecture
Faculty Architecture est une école d'architecture située à Kigali, au Rwanda, conçue pour accueillir 600 étudiants sur un terrain de 5 600 mètres carrés. Le projet part d'un volume simple sur deux niveaux. Ce volume est écarté sur ses côtés opposés, ce qui crée une faille centrale formant un espace extérieur destiné aux étudiants. La pierre est utilisée pour l'enveloppe extérieure et le béton teinté dans la masse pour l'intérieur. De petites fenêtres s'ouvrent vers l'extérieur, tandis que les grandes baies tournées vers l'intérieur sont protégées par les débords de toiture. Les parties supérieures tronquées font entrer la lumière naturelle et améliorent la ventilation.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award d'Or
Faculty Architecture École d'architecture est lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Or, une reconnaissance immensément prestigieuse décernée à des designs de premier ordre, merveilleux et remarquables. Les lauréats Or sont des créations extrêmement innovantes, visionnaires et d'un éclat glamour éblouissant, qui reflètent le génie, la sagesse et la maîtrise de leurs concepteurs. Faculty Architecture École d'architecture est censé être une invention très louée, avant-gardiste et monumentale, qui apporte une valeur sans précédent. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Or est un projet spectaculaire et respecté qui sert grandement l'art, la science, le design et la technologie et en repousse les limites. Faculty Architecture École d'architecture crée de vifs sentiments de désir, éveille la passion, encourage la créativité et nous fascine.
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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