MASS Design Group: Recent Built Work

The end-users of projects as diverse as a primary school, doctors' housing, and a hospital for treating multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis speak to how the firm's design approach impacts communities.

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Iwan Baan

By Katie Gerfen

May 16, 2017

Portfolio: MASS Design Group

MASS Design Group has completed 23 projects in its less than 10 years. As part of a portfolio of the Boston and Kigali, Rwanda-based firm’s work, ARCHITECT spoke to the designers, landscape architects, and researchers at MASS about three recently completed projects, and interviewed the clients and end-users who are seeing the impact of these projects in their daily lives.

Iwan Baan

The Mubuga Primary School
Musanze District, Rwanda

Iwan Baan

Butaro Doctors’ Sharehouses
Butaro, Rwanda

Iwan Baan

GHESKIO Tuberculosis Hospital
Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Profile

MASS in Context

Built Projects

The Mubuga Primary School

GHESKIO Tuberculosis Hospital

Butaro Doctors’ Sharehouses

Unbuilt Projects

Colorado College Housing

African Rural University Library and Community Resource Centre

One Acre Fund

Mattapan Housing

Kigali Genocide Memorial—African Center for Peace

Butaro Cancer Support Center

National Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre

Manifesto

The New Empowerment

About the Author

Katie Gerfen

Katie Gerfen is the former editor-in-chief of ARCHITECT, as well as the former editor of Custom Home.

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