Faculty Architecture of Kigali Education School

This architectural photograph presents a campus of educational buildings characterized by distinctive pyramidal roof structures in warm earth tones, viewed from an elevated position looking across the rooftops toward a distant urban landscape. Scanning from foreground to background, the immediate lower portion shows a sloped surface in deep rust red, smooth and matte like sun-baked clay. Rising prominently at center, a truncated pyramidal volume in warm coral orange displays its faceted planes, with a human silhouette shadow cast upon its surface, suggesting the photographer's presence. The texture appears granular, like fine-grained plaster warmed by sunlight. To the left and right, similar pyramidal structures cluster together, their angles creating a rhythmic landscape of triangular forms in varying shades from deep terracotta to lighter orange, warm as baked earth or desert sandstone. Dark rectangular window openings punctuate some facades, appearing as cool recessed shadows against the warm surfaces. Walkways and stairways visible between structures suggest circulation paths, their concrete surfaces providing cool gray contrast. Metal railings appear as thin dark lines defining edges and balconies. Mature trees with deep green foliage emerge between buildings, their organic forms softening the angular geometry. The middle distance reveals additional campus structures maintaining the same material and color vocabulary. Beyond, an urban panorama stretches toward the horizon under a sky of soft cerulean blue with white clouds, the distant buildings appearing hazy and cool through atmospheric perspective. The lighting suggests warm direct sunlight from the right, casting defined shadows that articulate the faceted geometry while creating temperature contrast between illuminated and shaded surfaces.

The agency responded to the international call for tenders launched in March 2012 by the Government of Rwanda for the design of a new school of architecture. This school, with a capacity of 600 students, will be established on a surface area of 5,600 sqm not far from the existing faculty. For this project the agency started from a simple volume on two levels that it has deformed like tectonics deforms the masses: pull on opposite sides and a central fault is created, this is the outer living space of students.