Masoro Health Center

The Masoro Health Center is a campus that offers a diversity of experiences, and provides our client-community with health and wellbeing services, education, food cultivation and preparation training, in a shared inclusive and open community space . We use the site’s topography to compose a series of buildings, coverings, terraces and ramps to differentiate the major exterior functions while maintaining accessibility for all. As part of the project we provided construction training to under-employed local villagers, then hired them to build the center. The result is a community-based project with a shared sense of authorship and ownership, prioritizing pedestrians, supplying water and food infrastructures and providing a flexibility of use for current and future needs.

General Architecture Collaborative Masoro Health Center Plan

Awards + Media

Awards:

  • Metropolis Magazine, Game Changer Award

  • American Institute of Architects, Virginia, Honor Award

  • Society of American Registered Architects, New York, Honor Award

  • Architizer, A+ Architecture for Good Design Award

  • A’ Design, International Design Award

  • Architecture Master Prize, Honorable Mention

  • Dezeen Global Design Award, Finalist

Media:


Project Team

General Architecture Collaborative:

  • James Setzler

  • Patrice Ndababonye

  • Nicolas Kalimba Rugamba

  • Marie Claire Musengayire

  • Cynthia Twagirayezu

  • Marie Rose Ukwizabigira

  • Iris Gomm

  • Mia Shepard

  • Yutaka Sho

  • Leighton Beaman


Project Data

Location :

  • Masoro,  Rulindo District, Rwanda 

Cost:

  • $800,000 (USD)

Size:

  • Site: 0.6 hectares 

  • Building: 1000 square meters


Project Partners

Collaborators:

  • Kate Spade NY On Purpose

  • Health Builders

  • Gardens for Health International

  • Great Lakes Energy

Community Partner:

  • Rwanda Ministry of Health

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