卢旺达卡永扎妇女再就业中心玫瑰林

Women’s Opportunity Center

内容：实景照片

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景观设计：Sharon Davis Design
景观面积：2公顷
景观时间：2013
图片来源：Elizabeth Felicella

这是由 Sharon Davis Design设计的卢旺达卡永扎妇女再就业中心。这是2013WAF优胜奖获得者，在人口最稠密的卢旺达，为妇女创造就业机会的一个中心。位于肥沃的山谷上方，十字路口处，是一座半农村的设计，这里是理想的构架舞台。
该设计包括场地中心的教室，农贸市场，和周围的民众的领域。设计遵守传统的空间和社会阶层分布。模仿卢旺达南部有着悠久历史的王宫，借鉴了土著住宅的元素，利用芦苇编织的圆心多空结构，而建造的多孔砖墙。和谐小屋作为一个渠道，将卡永扎的妇女与全世界的赞助商连接起来，通过持续的全球网络拓展，形成新的社交足迹。

译者：温冷清秋

Winner of “Civic and Community Center” category at WAF 2013
On a two-hectare site in Rwanda, the most densely populated country in Africa, the Women’s Opportunity Center is empowering one small community and, in turn, rewriting our role as designers.
One hour from the Rwandan capital of Kigali, Kayonza is like much of this strife-torn nation: a place with few means but great promise. In this semi-rural setting, women dedicate their days to small subsistence farms, fetching fresh water, and scavenging wood for fuel. The site of the new Women’s Opportunity Center, located at a crossroads above a fertile valley, is an ideal arena for architecture that opens a new world of opportunity.
We chose the idea of a vernacular Rwandan village as our organizing principle: a series of human-scaled pavilions clustered to create security and community for up to 300 women. Designed in collaboration with Women for Women International — a humanitarian organization that helps women survivors of war rebuild their lives—this mini-village transforms urban agglomeration and subsistence farming with an architectural agenda to create economic opportunity, rebuild social infrastructure, and restore African heritage.
Our design revives a lost Rwandan design tradition with deep spatial and social layers. Its circular forms radiate outward, from intimate classrooms at the center of the site to a community space, farmer’s market, and the civic realm beyond. The center’s circular structures are modeled after the historic King’s Palace in southern Rwanda, whose woven-reed dwellings were part of an indigenous tradition that the region had all but lost. Our design draws on the delicacy of this vernacular Rwandan construction method with rounded, perforated brick walls that allow for passive cooling and solar shading, while maintaining a sense of privacy.
The design builds support for Rwanda’s social infrastructure through guest lodging facilities that allow donors and partner organizations to experience the Opportunity Center first-hand. These lodges serve as a conduit for initiatives that build one-to-one relationships between women in Kayonza and sponsors around the world, expanding the center’s social footprint through a sustaining global network.

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