The Butaro Regional Hospital & nearby Doctor’s Housing is a collaborative design project that engages local labor and materials to create a health facility that is uniquely rooted in its context.
Designer: MASS Design Group / Partners In Health
Year: 2008-2011
Location: Burera District, Northern Province, Rwanda
Adapted Text from ArchDaily
In the design of the hospital, MASS Design Group and PIH sought to create a more holistic model of architecture that included the design of an appropriate, state of the art hospital while also fully choreographing the process of construction to employ, educate and empower the local community.