Add To Collection
Add to Collection
Banda Rwanda Eco-Lodge
Banda Rwanda Eco-Lodge
Finalist, 2024 A+Awards, Hospitality - Unbuilt Hospitality
Project Featured on Jun 13, 2024
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
Banda Rwanda Eco-Lodge
Finalist, 2024 A+Awards, Hospitality - Unbuilt Hospitality
Project Featured on Jun 13, 2024
Firm
STATUS
Under Construction
SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
BUDGET
Unknown
Located in the isolated village of Banda, adjacent to Rwanda’s Nyungwe National Forest, this modern community center was designed in conjunction with Kageno Worldwide to serve this region, where poverty reflects years of ethnic genocide, economic hardship, and disease. Kageno established the program needed to improve the welfare of this community and planned a new complex of buildings that could symbolize a more hopeful future for the Banda Region.
Now completed, the Phase 1 Community Center addresses the village's health care and educational needs with amenities like health clinics, a maternity center, classrooms, gathering spaces, and a communal teaching kitchen with educational, agricultural fields.
Phase 2 of construction, which is currently in progress, involves the creation of an Eco-Tourist Lodge and Guest Bungalows that provide accommodations for visitors to both Banda and Nyungwe National Forest.
Locally familiar vernacular materials, including brick, stucco, and corrugated metal roofs, can cost-effectively be built with local labor, creating jobs and skill-sets for the Banda community. The villagers have learned basic construction skills that reinforces the community's role in the creation of this project. Roof-top solar panels, water collection systems, and composting waste facilities provide basic comforts not broadly available in the region. Natural ventilation takes advantage of air movement on the steeply sloped sight with operable and louvered fenestration, maintaining comfort in the highland rainforest climate.
The complex includes several clusters of one- and two-bedroom bungalows and bath pavilions on a hillside overlooking the park's mountainous landscape. The larger structure includes a welcome center, a café, a gift shop, and tour-guide accommodations.
Together, these facilities allow and welcome a broader range of visitors who enjoy well-conceived and commodious accommodations while providing much-needed outside income and job creation to the local economy, enabling the entire complex to be environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable and self-sufficient.
Now completed, the Phase 1 Community Center addresses the village's health care and educational needs with amenities like health clinics, a maternity center, classrooms, gathering spaces, and a communal teaching kitchen with educational, agricultural fields.
Phase 2 of construction, which is currently in progress, involves the creation of an Eco-Tourist Lodge and Guest Bungalows that provide accommodations for visitors to both Banda and Nyungwe National Forest.
Locally familiar vernacular materials, including brick, stucco, and corrugated metal roofs, can cost-effectively be built with local labor, creating jobs and skill-sets for the Banda community. The villagers have learned basic construction skills that reinforces the community's role in the creation of this project. Roof-top solar panels, water collection systems, and composting waste facilities provide basic comforts not broadly available in the region. Natural ventilation takes advantage of air movement on the steeply sloped sight with operable and louvered fenestration, maintaining comfort in the highland rainforest climate.
The complex includes several clusters of one- and two-bedroom bungalows and bath pavilions on a hillside overlooking the park's mountainous landscape. The larger structure includes a welcome center, a café, a gift shop, and tour-guide accommodations.
Together, these facilities allow and welcome a broader range of visitors who enjoy well-conceived and commodious accommodations while providing much-needed outside income and job creation to the local economy, enabling the entire complex to be environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable and self-sufficient.
Product Spec Sheet
Were your products used?
Join as a manufacturer to add your products.