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Ruhehe Primary School / MASS Design Group
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SCHOOLS • RUHENGERI, RWANDA
Architects: MASS Design Group
Area: 560 m²
Year: 2018
Photographs: Iwan Baan
Manufacturers: Atelier Economa General, Atelier Economa General Musanze, Cooperative COOMIVA
Musanze, Crown Paints Rwanda, Gahunga Quarry in Musanze, Nyirangarama, Quincaillerie Mateco,
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Text description provided by the architects. Ruhehe Primary School is a public school that serves 1,120
students from pre-primary to grade six, with the help of 20 teachers and maintenance staff. Through
partnership with M2 Foundation and the District of Musanze, the inaugural cohort of African Design
Centre (ADC) fellows led the reconstruction of Ruhehe as the cornerstone of their design-build
curriculum. The redesign of Ruhehe offers the first proof of concept for design interventions piloted by
MASS Design Group at Mubuga Primary School in 2015. Together, Mubuga and Ruhehe present new
standards in school design throughout Rwanda’s Musanze District.
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To MASS and the ADC fellows, Ruhehe offers opportunities far beyond the construction of a building. This
project aims to prove that design interventions across a school campus can improve learner outcomes,
increase satisfaction among students and teachers, and increase student retention rates. Through an
extensive Immersion process, ADC fellows were able to produce a community-centered design concept
that emphasizes capacity building at all project stages.By partnering with the local community and
designing contextually, these factors not only enhance learning and development of the whole child, but
also continue to support the scalability and replicability of the Mubuga model as a standard of school
design across the country.
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The new Ruhehe campus is laid out as a necklace, with the classrooms as pendants along the chain.
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their studies. The school campus is adjacent to a heavily visited sector office, a position that presents
both opportunities and challenges to integrating school activity with community happenings. The
fellows decided to demolish two out of the four existing classrooms and build an additional five
classrooms, library, and headmaster’s office.
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