Abilonino Community Polytechnic, Uganda
Abilonino Community Polytechnic is a project that attempts to achieve a subsequent layering approach to space-making through a thoroughfare experience that not only creates spaces but embraces them towards formal and informal poise.
The project organized by the Ugandan Ministry officials sort to build a completely new college including classrooms, workshops, laboratories, a library, offices, and staff rooms, dining facilities with a kitchen, student dormitories and a small demonstration school.
The project seeks to impact the community in Lira through imparting building technology skills to the local community. The project is intended to achieve low cost construction techniques but with a high standard of workmanship hence the local community will be educated in building techniques and management skills. This is inclusive of students of the same polytechnic.
The project has utilized locally available materials with low embodied energy and that are easily maintained. The careful use of burnt brick, concrete and rounded stone finish walls.
The project seeks to stem an architectural language that fuses traditional techniques and contemporary practice to achieve high level designs. The forms in the project are therefore a statement architecturally as they are a statement of the power of the community.