Green City Kigali, Republic of Rwanda , Kigali / Ruanda

 

Rwanda’s Green Fund (FONERWA)

 

KfW Development Bank

 

Green Climate Fund (GCF)

 

Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)

No 1 Aire Street, Leeds, LS1 4PR

 

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), on behalf of Rwanda’s Green Fund (FONERWA), KfW Development Bank and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) is pleased to announce the launch of an International Design Competition for the proposed Green City Kigali development in Rwanda’s capital.  

 

Rwanda’s Green Fund (FONERWA) has commissioned Sweco, one of Europe’s leading engineering and architecture consultancy companies, to carry out a feasibility study of the ambitious urban development project. The feasibility study plays a pivotal role in laying the groundwork for the implementation of the Green City Kigali and the future construction of the envisaged pilot development.

 

As stated in the project brief, Green City Kigali seeks to address the main challenges faced by the housing market in Kigali: housing affordability, housing supply and urban sprawl as a consequence of hilly terrain, population increase, and current patterns of low density development. The ambition is for Green City Kigali to become a transformative project, linking affordable housing with climate change adaptation and mitigation measures to help establish new standards for sustainable urban development that can be replicated elsewhere in Rwanda and beyond. The aim is to create a compact, mixed use development with a pedestrian focus that will provide its residents with public open space, neighbourhood facilities and local employment opportunities to encourage an inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable community.

 

Through the design competition, the selection process is seeking to appoint an experienced and suitably qualified Urban and Architectural Design Consultant organisation (and their assembled multi-disciplinary sub-consultant team) to further develop their masterplan proposals for the 600 hectare Kinyinya Hill area, together with a detailed masterplan and associated construction stage information for the pilot development.

 

In the first instance, applications are invited in accordance with the requirements set out in the Prequalification Document.

 

A maximum of five applicant teams will be shortlisted and invited to participate in the design competition and tender phase. Each shortlisted team that makes a design submission and complies with the tender requirements will receive an honorarium payment of Euro €50,000 as a contribution towards the cost of visiting the site, preparing the masterplan proposals and presenting these to the Adjudication Panel at a clarification interview to be held in Kigali.

 

The deadline for receipt of Prequalification returns is 14.00hrs (GMT) on Wednesday 18 December 2019.