3D Vision helps Uganda school project

Edited by the Buildingtalk editorial team May 8, 2006

Photo-realistic 3D images of architect's plans have brought to life a project to build a new primary school in the village of Mityana, west of Kampala in Uganda.

Photo-realistic 3D images of architect's plans have brought to life a project to build a new primary school in the village of Mityana, west of Kampala in Uganda.

3D Virtual, of Thame, Oxfordshire, is producing the 'walk through' images to help the fund raising effort.

Nabukenya Primary School is for local children in the Diocese of Mityana who are desperate for a school within walking distance of their homes.

It will be funded primarily from the efforts of the Housemaster and boys of Blucher House at Wellington College in Berkshire, which has adopted it as their special charity project.

The first phase, to raise £8,000 to fund the building of two classrooms, store rooms, shelters and the headmaster's house, will be launched with an e-auction and a printed catalogue - both of which will feature 3D Virtual's computer-generated images.

These visualisations will give an accurate picture of how the school will look once built.

One thousand copies of the catalogue will be mailed to parents, relations and friends of Wellington College pupils in the UK and across the world.

Phase two of the scheme will see the building of a further six classrooms and an assembly hall.