Rwanda Cricket Stadium / Light Earth Designs
The project is part of work undertaken by Light Earth Designs for the Rwanda Cricket Stadium Foundation over a 5-year period on how Rwanda can transition from an agriculture-based economy to development using local labor-intensive construction techniques, thereby avoiding imports, lowering carbon, and building skills and economies. The primary enclosure of the cricket stadium, the vaults, adapts ancient Mediterranean tile-vaulting (using compressed soil-cement tiles) to a moderate seismic context by using geogrid reinforcing in the layers and bearing the springing points of the curved vaults on the ground. The vaults follow the natural resolution of forces toward the ground, closely mimicking the parabolic geometry of a bouncing ball and evoking the cherished hilly topography of Rwanda.
© Johathan Gregson
Architects: Light Earth Designs
Location: Gahanga, Kigali, Rwanda
Partner And Lead: Tim Hall
Partner And Vaults Lead: Michael Ramage
Project Lead Architectural Engineer; On Site Lead: Ana Gatóo
Area: 650.0 m2
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Johathan Gregson, Light Earth Designs, Paul Broadie
Project Architect At Tender And Architect: Ben Veyrac
Formwork Design: Wesam Al Asali
Architect: Anton Larsen
Architectural Technician: Marco Groenstege
Engineering Support: Oliver Hudson
Project Inception Architect: Killian Doherty
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© Johathan Gregson
Architects: Light Earth Designs
Location: Gahanga, Kigali, Rwanda
Partner And Lead: Tim Hall
Partner And Vaults Lead: Michael Ramage
Project Lead Architectural Engineer; On Site Lead: Ana Gatóo
Area: 650.0 m2
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Johathan Gregson, Light Earth Designs, Paul Broadie
Project Architect At Tender And Architect: Ben Veyrac
Formwork Design: Wesam Al Asali
Architect: Anton Larsen
Architectural Technician: Marco Groenstege
Engineering Support: Oliver Hudson
Project Inception Architect: Killian Doherty
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