This is to welcome you to the first semester of year 3, and the studio module on Architectural Design V_CREATIVE PLACEMAKING. The course aims to introduce students to the general concept of placemaking and its application in Architecture, within the context of sustainable urbanisation. It integrated people-centered design and outlines strategies that can be applied to embed culture into architectural projects to achieve place attachment which is further linked to positive citizenship, better health and safety outcomes. In exploring how places and spaces are important components of our personal, social, and cultural identities, it allows students to learn from and critique a series of specific case studies. Ultimately, the course gives students the opportunity to make new connections with people and place, while envisioning new relationships between community and place, through which they explore the possibilities of placemaking using a selected public space project
Module Leader: Dr Josephine Malonza
This module presents an overview of monetary systems, primary and secondary money markets, sources of mortgage loans, government programs, loan applications, processes and procedures, closing costs, alternative financial instruments, equal credit opportunity laws affecting mortgage lending, and the state housing agency.
Greetings Dear Students,
This is to welcome you to the 3rd year first trimester’s Architectural Design III module. The theme is 'CULTURAL CONTEXTS' and is inspired by the unique concept of cultivating learning environments that are participatory, reflective, action-focused and change-oriented. In this trimester, we will focus on a comprehensive housing upgrading project serving as a pragmatic example of embracing informality in Kigali. Through a participatory design approach, supported by lectures, readers, charrettes, guest lectures, field visits and complimentary research packages in ‘water and sanitation’ and ‘made in Rwanda construction materials’, we will develop a scheme that responds to community culture, across all scales of the existing urban landscape as well as the social behaviours of the community it is designed for.
Module Learning Objectives:
Course Instructor:
Dr. Josephine Malonza
Greetings Dear Students,
This is to welcome you to the second trimester studio module on Architectural Design IV. The theme is 'CULTURAL CONTEXTS' and is inspired by the unique concept of cultivating learning environments that are participatory, reflective, action-focused and change-oriented. In this trimester, we will focus on a comprehensive housing upgrading project serving as a pragmatic example of embracing informality in Kigali. Through a participatory design approach, supported by lectures, readers, charrettes, guest lectures, field visits and complimentary research packages in ‘water and sanitation’ and ‘made in Rwanda construction materials’, we will develop a scheme that responds to community culture, across all scales of the existing urban landscape as well as the social behaviours of the community it is designed for.Â
Learning Objectives:
1. To learn from selected precedent studies the:Â overall design concepts, interior and exterior relationships, human scale, urban life, cultural considerations, materials & construction and environmental efficiency. Â
2. To understand the core relationships between people, buildings, space and context (social, cultural and  environmental).Â
3. To appreciate the importance of the users’ necessities and how the design ought to answer to specific community and contextual dynamics using a participatory design approach.
4. To demonstrate how knowledge gained from 1,2,3,4 can be applied to generate design interventions for housing the target community.
Course Instructor:
Dr. Josephine Malonza
Architectural Theory III introduces the student to the modern theories on Architecture weaving a file rouge with the Architectural vision in Africa. Architectural Theory III is divided in two parts. In the first part of the course students are asked to come across architectural theories related to the fundamental relationship between city and architecture. In the second part the students explore the same relationship in the Tropical African context. The module is structured according to the PBL principles therefore; the output will be an analysis on the real case of the Kigali City Masterplan 2020 that is studied according to the theories learnt during the module. All the lectures and course materials will be also available on the internet site: www.cstmanlio.wordpress.com.
The course aims to provide the concept of structure in architecture. It enables students of architecture to develop an intuitive understanding of structural engineering so that, they are able to conduct productive dialogs with structural engineers, it introduces the concept of forces on Building and Relationship between structural planning and theory, ground and foundation. It also exposes methods of structural analysis for such building structural elements as beams, truss. The course analysis methods to the studio design of structural forms. All the lectures and course materials will be available on the internet site: www.cstmanlio.wordpress.com.