African Design Magazine July 2017 | Page 22

Its size and location gave an opportunity to develop a clear identity for the college that would grow out of the climate and context – and where possible transform those particular conditions to serve the academic and vision of the college. The proposed plans consider the site, climate, access, relation to the community, education, physical aspects, sustainability, and vision of the college to achieve the goals set out by the masterplan. Completed earlier this year, phase 1 provided a total new build of 1 690m 2 consisting of a two libraries, two IT suites, seven lecture rooms, language lab and offices. The National Teachers’ College, Kaliro is situated in an isolated and relatively deprived rural area in Eastern Uganda. The College is located in Kaliro district which is approximately 32km north of Iganga district, around 3,5km from Kaliro town. The college started as a Grade II Teachers’ College in the 1970s, upgrading to Grade III in the 1980s and eventually to its present status of a Grade V Teachers College since 1985. FBW is a British architectural and engineering consultancy, established in 1995, to provide professional building services throughout Eastern Africa and the wider region from our East African base in Uganda and established centres of operation in Rwanda, Kenya and the Netherlands. They are a multi- disciplinary ‘one-stop-shop’ providing a full range of in-house professional services including architecture; civil, structural, MEP engineering and project oversight to all sectors of construction and development. The brief “The brief was to design a responsive and sustainable masterplan and