Murambi Memorial

 

This project is centered on the main building in Murambi, a school that has been left vacated since the genocide in 1994. The school classrooms where over eight hundred corpses have been preserved have been left untouched.

On the ground floor on the main building new walls were constructed to create a space that allowed for the design of the exhibition and burial place. The open hall on the ground floor of the main building now has a pathway, which leads visitors first to an exhibition describing the context of the genocide, then into the burial rooms. The burial rooms allow some of the preserved human remains to be viewed, while at the same time they are also buried with some dignity.

Construction work included: new walls, plastering, Terrazo walks, power cables, lighting, painting, curtains, toilets, reception counter, seats, railings, generator, gardens, external paths, car-parking, and landscaping.