{"id":36857,"date":"2018-01-24T12:34:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T12:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/new-ur-s-school-of-architecture-premises-set-for\/"},"modified":"2018-01-24T12:33:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T12:33:59","slug":"new-ur-s-school-of-architecture-premises-set-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/new-ur-s-school-of-architecture-premises-set-for\/","title":{"rendered":"New UR\u2019s school of Architecture premises set for launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to IGIHE, the head of Communication in UR, Mike Karangwa said that not later than 30th this month, UR will have received the premises. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe construction firm will hand to us the premises and students start using them. It has capacity of accommodating a big number of students, about 400, with 13 with lecture rooms, studios and offices,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Construction works started back in 2015.  The premises\u2019 master plan was developed by French Architect Patrick Schweitzer.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to France based media house, France Bleu recently, Schweitzer said that he borrowed the inspiration of the master plan from Volcanoes located in the Northern region of Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe idea was to construct a building which has lessons. We started from things available locally as a way to encourage students who will study there love local things,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The school was constructed using materials available locally including volcanic rocks locally known as \u2018amakoro\u2019. Over 350 got jobs during the construction activities. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23826 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/igishushanyo_mbonera_cy_iri_shuri_cyakozwe_hagendewe_ku_miterere_y_ibirunga-d74fd.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23825 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1-1925-063d6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23827 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/imirimo_yo_kuryubaka_iri_kugera_ku_musozo-31e82.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23828 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umufaransa_patrick_schweitzer_wakoze_igishushanyo_mbonera_avuga_ko_yifuzaga_inyubako_nayo_izaba_nk_isomo_ku_biga_ubugeni_mu_bijyanye_n_ubwubatsi-c6b79.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23829 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/yubakishijwe_ibikoresho_biboneka_mu_rwanda_birimo_amabuye_azwi_nk_amakoro-ef627.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Rwanda (UR) is set to receive and launch new premises that will house the School of Architecture in College of Science and Technology (CST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36857"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36857"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}