Faculty Architecture Schola Architecturae by Patrick Schweitzer S&AA is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Praemium A' Design Award Aureum in Architectura Competition Category.
AurumArchitectura· 2020
Faculty Architecture Schola Architecturae
Client: S&aa
Praemium A' Design Award Aureum Winner in Architectura Category
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About Faculty Architecture Schola Architecturae
Facultas Architecturae schola architecturae est Kigali in Ruanda sita, sescentis discipulis in area quinque milium sescentorum metrorum quadratorum destinata. Consilium a simplici volumine duobus tabulatis incipit. Volumen in partes oppositas distrahitur, quo hiatus centralis efficitur, qui spatium subdiale discipulis praebet. Lapis pro involucro exteriore adhibetur et concretum colore proprio pro interiore. Fenestrae parvae foras spectant, dum fenestrae magnae introrsum versae proiecturis tecti obumbrantur. Partes superiores truncatae lucem diurnam inducunt et ventilationem meliorem reddunt.
The Recognition
About the Praemium A' Design Award Aureum
Faculty Architecture Schola Architecturae victor est Praemii A' Design Award Aureum, honoris amplissimi formis primi ordinis, mirabilibus et praestantibus dati. Victores Aurei sunt opera valde nova, provida et splendida, quae ingenium, sapientiam et peritiam auctorum suorum referunt. Exspectatur Faculty Architecture Schola Architecturae inventum laudatissimum, inclinationes creans et monumentale fore, quod pretium inauditum afferat. Haec forma Aureo praemio victa est incepto mirabile et honoratum, quod fines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae promovet. Faculty Architecture Schola Architecturae cupiditatem vehementem excitat, studium accendit, ingenium creandi fovet et capit.
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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