The agency responded to the international call for tenders launched in March 2012 by the Government of Rwanda for the design of a new school of architecture. This school, with a capacity of 600 students, will be established on a surface area of 5,600 sqm not far from the existing faculty. For this project the agency started from a simple volume on two levels that it has deformed like tectonics deforms the masses: pull on opposite sides and a central fault is created, this is the outer living space of students.
In a rapidly changing world, the challenges facing architecture are numerous: proposing innovative architectural solutions and designing forms that are capable of dealing with energy constraints for the good of all. Since its creation in 2001, the Patrick Schweitzer & AssociƩs architectural firm has taken on board these new challenges in order to promote sensitive architecture that reduces the ecological impact of buildings and promotes "better living together".