Article source: Studio FH Architects

Three courtyard buildings on a 13-acre site near Kamuli town in Eastern Uganda provide accommodation, teaching and working space for agricultural students from Iowa State University and Makerere University.

The architecture contrasts a heavily textured clay brick envelop with light-weight timber-glass and coloured render facades facing the courtyards. An undulating roofscape organically embeds the buildings into the surrounding, and the folded metal gutters not only make an architectural statement of the rainwater harvesting that supply the majority of the Centre’s water needs, but also act as light reflectors illuminating the underside of the walkway roofs.

Image Courtesy © Will Boase Photography

• Architects: Studio FH Architects
• Project: Mpirigiti Rural Training Center
• Location: Kamuli, Uganda
• Photography: Will Boase Photography
• Landscape Designer: The Landscape Studio
• Structural Engineer: Aquila Gallery
• MEP Engineer: Equatorsun
• Quantity Surveyor/Project Manager: Dudley Kasibante and Partners
• Contractor: Soleco Construction
• Area: 1,950m²
• Project Year: 2018

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