Kika Performing Arts Center
Working with local architects, we discussed the parameters of the project: a stage perhaps in the round as an echo of African story circles; open to the equatorial climate, but covered against the rain, seating about 800, with the option to house o
The company continues to perform in locations and venues in Uganda and throughout the region. Kaddu Yusef, the company’s founder and leader, provides housing and schooling for all of their members
on Lake Victoria
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I created a design for a three-sided arena anchored at the corners by small buildings which create entrances and house dressing rooms, control booths, work, office, and storage areas. The buildings are connected by risers with passages underneath to
The facility is covered with petal-like inverted roofs to channel water away. They are covered with locally made and inexpensive corrugated steel. The gaps between are covered with smaller overlapping roofs covered with clear corrugated fiberglass a
All solid buildings are to be constructed using blocks pressed from soil and a small amount of concrete in a technique invented by a professor at the local university. Ugandan buildings are commonly constructed of “burnt brick”, a process which bot
Seating is common, cheap, and ubiquitous resin chairs. In this case I arranged them in patterns reminiscent of African woven baskets.
Cameras and projectors in the corner buildings can provide images above the opposite audience risers., ensuring that no one is looking at backs.
At this point, the facility is yet to be realized.
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