I stumbled upon this article by Lamar Anderson titled “To Reduce Infection, This Rwandan Hospital Banished Hallways”
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| The New Butaro Hospital in Rwanda |
I was thrilled that this project won the 2013 Architizer A+ Jury Award in the Architecture + Collaboration category.
The project is about the design of the new Butaro Hospital in Rwanda which was built in conjunction with experts at the nonprofit health care organisation, Partners in Health. It was designed to minimise the spread of disease due to the presence of hallways.
The Story begins….
When a team from MASS Design Group arrived in Rwanda in 2008 to design a hospital for the rural region of Burera, they heard a story about a clinic that had sickened its charges in an outbreak of tuberculosis. Poor ventilation meant the disease could spread easily between patients, many of whom were cooped up together in hallways. “We said, ‘So why have hallways?’” Alan Ricks, a founding partner of MASS Design Group, recalls in a video (see below) about the project.
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