KNUST Senior Staff Club House and Archives in Danger
As part of our British Academy Internationalisation and Mobility grant Iain Jackson and Ola Uduku visited Rexford Opong at KNUST in March (we included some brief updates here: Notes from Kumasi and Notes from Kumasi: part 2 and also Notes from Kumasi Part 3). We were fortunate enough to visit the Estate Planning Department and drawing offices and photographed some of the original drawings made of the university estate and buildings. Whilst every effort is being made to carefully preserve these drawings they have been subject to the ravages of time, humidity and vermin attack and many are in a poor state of repair. They are unlikely to survive for much longer.
In an attempt to remedy and counter this we are putting together an ‘Archives in Danger’ grant that, if successful, will enable these important artefacts to be digitally scanned/carefully photographed and then carefully preserved and archived for future scholarship.
In the meantime we’ve used the photographed drawings to produce a series of new CAD files. Pedro Bittencourt, a student based at Liverpool School of Architecture, has worked dilligently on translating the imperial scales into a metric format and has produced all of the new drawings. He has then used these drawings to construct a beautiful scale model of the Club House, utilising a laser cutter as to form the delicate components.
We’re hoping to produce additional models of other buildings on campus that can be used in exhibitions and as part of our lecture series.
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I would Like to know who designed the KNUST Staff Club House, KNUST Great Hall & Library, the Unity Hall Housing Block as well as the Vice Chancellor’s Residence. Thank you
As well as the various years when they were completed/designed.
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does anybody have contact info for Pedro Bittencourt?
does anyone have contact info for Pedro bittencourt? I would like to discuss a project with him. Thank you – Ham Morrison