This document summarizes a research project on the architectural and structural design of a proposed four-story medical sciences faculty building at INES RUHENGERI in Rwanda. The research aimed to develop a master plan for the new building according to international design standards. The architectural design included layouts for classrooms, offices, laboratories and other facilities. The structural design analyzed loads on building elements like slabs, beams, columns, and foundations and designed steel reinforcements. The conclusion stated that the designed building will provide a safe, comfortable and accessible space to meet the needs of the medical sciences programs while following architectural and structural standards.

2. ARCHITECTURAL AND STRUCTURAL DESIGN OF
MEDICAL SCIENCES’ FACULTY BUILDING
FOR INES MASTER PLAN
Rongin Jean de la Croix UWAJENEZA
TOPIC:
Supervisor: Dr. Eng. Joseph desire TWUBAHIMANA (PhD)
INSTITUT D’ENSEIGNEMENT SUPÉRIEUR DE RUHENGERI
FACULTY OF APPLIED FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

3. Statement of the problem
Actually, INES RUHENGERI is a developing institute of applied science. it
has different existing building but which don’t include the medical sciences
faculty, now there is a need of a well studied masterplan for block of medical
sciences faculty .
The problems were that a well studied masterplan for block of medical
sciences faculty were not available yet and that since INES RUHENGERI was
found the need of including a major of health care services in the programs
offered by INES RUHENGERI has not been satisfied yet.
As a new faculty of medical sciences well designed to serve medical sciences
standard as newest faculty within the institution with an ambition of hosting
six departments will be among the best long lasting facility or solution to the
challenge in communities due to health care services.

4. Research questions
i) What is the arrangement, dimensions and shape of rooms and other facilities
so that there is enough comfort in this building?
ii) How is the building loaded?
iii) What are the dimensions of the different structural elements required to
withstand the building load safely?

5. Objectives
i) To do architectural and interior design of the building,
ii) To do the structural design of the building,
iii) To make detailing and the bill of quantities
The main objective of this research was to meet INES RUHENGERI master plan
by designing a four- storey building of medical science’s faculty containing many
lecture rooms, staffs.
Main objective
Specific objectives

6. Beneficiaries of the research
This research will give an inspiration to students and researchers to work on
different elements in INES RUHENGERI master plan especially their
feasibilities and their impacts. Also for students doing research on design of a
multi-storey building it is good example to refer to, while they will be doing
the structural, interior and architectural design.
This research will provide a better understanding about the design of a multi-
storey building to be used in institution master plan as a multi-storeys building
with all necessary facilities and comforts. The result from this research could
be used by any developing institution decision makers to meet their master
plan without design tendering.
Academically
Technically

7. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The site is located in Northern Province, MUSANZE district, MUSANZE
sector, RWAMBOGO cell, in INES RUHENGERI plot near of botanic garden
and civil engineering laboratories. Currently the big part of the site is occupied
by forest and the remaining part is empty. The site has access to water, electricity
and it is connected to other parts of INES RUHENGERI by an access road.
Site description
A safe and comfortable four stories building was conceived basing on
international standards, the standards were extracted and collected from various
book and codes of architecture in order to relate each and every part of the
building especially room size and capacities with the international standards.
Architectural design approach

8. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY (cont’d)
The structural design was all about analysing and determining the required steel
reinforcement of all the reinforced cement concrete elements derived from the
architectural drawing.
Structural design to British standard (BS 8110-1997) and Euro Code 2(EC 2)
was carried out using manual design approach and application of computer for
verification
Structural design approach
Geotechnical study of the site
Dynamic cone penetration test was used in determining the safe bearing
capacity of the foundation soil for the site investigation in support of
analysis and design

9. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
OFFICES NUMBER SIZE (m2 )
Dean of faculty office 1 25
Dean secretary office 1 16
Head of the department offices 6 25
Lecturers staff offices 6 30
Hall for conference offices 2 386
1. Architectural design
Lecture rooms
Each lecture room has internal surface area of 64 m2 that will be comfortable for
45 students and the lecturer inclusive. every student has a space of 1.4 m2
Offices
This medical sciences building has various offices located in each storey, those
office are described in the table below.

10. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (cont’d)
Architectural design (Cont’d)
Laboratories
This building of medical sciences has 6 laboratories and they have different
sizes shown in the below. based on the standard (Neufert, 1970)
DEPARTMENT LABORATORIES SIZE(m2)
General medicine General medicine 150
Physical therapy Physical therapy 128
Radiography Radiography 128
Pediatric Pediatric 128
Dentistry Dentistry 128
Pharmacy Pharmacy 128
Biomedical laboratory sciences Biomedical laboratory science 192

11. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (cont’d)
Architectural design (Cont’d)
Other details
Sanitary equipment
Stairs and ramps
Openings (windows, ventilation and doors)
Free spaces (Barraza, corridor and main entrance)

12. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (cont’d)
Architectural design
(Cont’d)
MAIN HALL
(INDOOR)

13. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (cont’d)
Architectural design
(Cont’d)
LECTURE ROOM
(INDOOR)

14. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (cont’d)
Architectural design
(Cont’d)
OFFICES INDOOR

15. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (cont’d)
Architectural design
(Cont’d)
VERANDAH IN
FRONT OF
LECTURE ROOM

16. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (cont’d)
Architectural design
(Cont’d)
CORRIDOR

17. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (cont’d)
Architectural design
(Cont’d)
FRONT VIEW OF
THE BUILDING

18. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (cont’d)
Architectural design
(Cont’d)
BACK VIEW OF THE
BUILDING

19. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (cont’d)
Architectural design
(Cont’d)
LEFT SIDE VIEW OF THE
BUILDING

20. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (cont’d)
2. STRUCTURE DESIGN
The structural design has analyzed the internal forces to be withstood by all reinforced
cement concrete structural elements and computed how those element are reinforced
Interior panel (P10)
Slab design
Steel reinforcement arrangement on interior panel

21. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (cont’d)
2. STRUCTURE DESIGN
Edge panel (P.2)
Slab design (cont’d)
Steel reinforcement arrangement on Edge panel

22. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (cont’d)
2. STRUCTURE DESIGN
Corner panel (P.105)
Slab design (cont’d)
Steel reinforcement arrangement on Corner panel

23. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (cont’d)
2. STRUCTURE DESIGN
Cantilever panel (P. 14)
Slab design (cont’d)
Steel reinforcement arrangement on Cantilever panel

24. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (cont’d)
2. STRUCTURE DESIGN
Longitudinal exterior beams (most loaded for long span)
Beam design
Steel reinforcement arrangement

25. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (cont’d)
2. STRUCTURE DESIGN
Longitudinal interior beams (most loaded for long span)
Beam design (cont’d)
Steel reinforcement arrangement

26. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (cont’d)
2. STRUCTURE DESIGN
Transverse exterior beams (most loaded for long span)
Beam design (cont’d)
Steel reinforcement arrangement

27. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (cont’d)
2. STRUCTURE DESIGN
Transverse interior beams (most loaded for long span)
Beam design (cont’d)
Steel reinforcement arrangement

28. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (cont’d)
2. STRUCTURE DESIGN
Interior column design (C 163)
Column design
Steel reinforcement arrangement

29. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (cont’d)
2. STRUCTURE DESIGN
Corner column design (C 163)
Column design (cont’d)
Steel reinforcement arrangement

30. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (cont’d)
2. STRUCTURE DESIGN
Corner column design (C 163)
Column design (cont’d)
Steel reinforcement arrangement

31. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (cont’d)
2. STRUCTURE DESIGN
Corner column design (C 163)
Column design (cont’d)
Steel reinforcement arrangement

32. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (cont’d)
2. STRUCTURE DESIGN
Ground beam
Ground beam design
Steel reinforcement arrangement
Ground beam detailing in transversal
Ground beam detailing in longitudinal
section

33. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (cont’d)
2. STRUCTURE DESIGN
Footing of C 143
Foundation design
Steel reinforcement arrangement
Footing of C 153

34. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (cont’d)
2. STRUCTURE DESIGN Staircase design
Steel reinforcement arrangement Loadings on the stair

35. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (cont’d)
2. STRUCTURE DESIGN Ramp design
Steel reinforcement arrangement Loading on ramp

36. CONCLUSION
This study solved the challenge of having a complete structural and architectural
design of the four-storey building of medical sciences faculty at INES
RUHENGERI that the beneficiaries want, satisfying the requirements of making
it an environmental friendly structure at the same time.
The designed building will safeguard the end-users, providing natural lighting,
and the ramp which make the building friendly to the disabled people. The
classrooms and other rooms offer not only enough space for all the potential
activities in the medical faculty, but also will easy the services offered in it.

37. CONCLUSION (Cont’d)
The building was designed taking the precaution avoiding that the ventilation in
the building would necessitate the air conditioning equipment, the proposed
building also fulfils the Structural integrity to keep the users free from the
accidents, to ensure the safety, the reinforced cement concrete design to
British standard and Euro code 2 has been done manually and verified by
reliable computer programs. The Architectural specifications were also
followed to avoid accidents and satisfy the needs of the building users. All the
considered criteria lead the project to be economical.

38. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
I would like to express my gratitude to all the people who helped me to
accomplish all the duties that eventually lead to fruition of my university
studies.
Firstly, my gratitude goes to my final year project supervisor Dr Eng. Joseph
Desire TWUBAHIMANA for accepting me to work under his supervision.
Secondly, I wholeheartedly thank my parents for their financial and moral
support, I’m also thankful to my brother, my sisters, my brothers in-low and my
love-girl for always being there for me.
I am always grateful for all dissertation defence panel members, Thank you for
your time.
I also acknowledge all my primary and secondary school teachers and
university lecturers for their intellectual package I got from them.
Eventually, I'm expressing my gratitude to my fellow classmates with whom I
shared the university life for their cooperation and their moral support.