Umusozi Ukiza Healing Hill by MASS Design Group
Located on an adjacent site to the Butaro Hospital, the “Healing Hill” is a Butaro Doctors’ housing project designed by Boston-based non profit firm MASS in collaboration with the Daniel E. Ponton Fund at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Partners In Health, and the Rwandan Ministry of Health.
Architects: MASS Design Group
Location: Butaro, Rwanda
Photography: Iwan Baan
This Doctors’ Housing consist of four duplexes house that made of local available materials and manufactured by skilled, local craftsmen that were trained throughout the process.
The result ont only created an improved and sustainable building, and ultimately cultivated 900 jobs in sustainable building practices. It’s great!