This design proposal is conceived as a picture of the landscape of thousand hills that represents the city of kigali, rwanda.
The dental centre as the starting point, to help, to train and to educate the people, as the ultimate goal of this project by his hands on africa (hhoa).
By giving the meaning to maximize the views of the greenery into the design, a series of simple rectangular form of the buildings enters into a relationship with the city fabric by shifting themselves depending on the contour of the kigali site and perceived differently on the observer’s vantage point by maximize the view of landscape.
The result of this structural ingenuity, then, is not only an iconic roofline that provides natural light, but a highly flexible interior space that accommodates offices, warehouse, and gallery space under a single envelope. The roof is detached from the slabs and walls, giving rise to a numbers of small hills.
The heart of the building 1 creates distintive open courtyard, a large central communal space (approx. 320m2), that it’s experienced not only as a courtyard, but also as a meditation, a natural gathering point across by connecting different functions. The fences is linked up to connect the three buildings with openings allowing a look through the wall to the outside and the courtyard formed gives people the feeling of being sheltered in a cozy village.
The stacked local bricks cover the facade on all sides, highlighting the modules and to accentuate the traditional artisanal pattern of imigongo as the art of rwanda.
The 5m grid modular system is applied on the short side of the site that aim to attests to the same concrete structure designed to meet the mixed programmatic needs and budgeted construction that gives a more efficient works and shorten the project schedule.