Rural Uganda faces many challenges with offering modern healthcare. Among those are a lack of doctors, lack of training, and lack of facilities, resulting in a high mortality rate for mothers and infants.
The new facility will offer lab spaces, maternity wards, patient rooms, emergency services, optometry, dental, doctor housing, and a physician training center. The facility builds upon the traditions of local tradesmen while elevating the design through applied research with adapted typologies. By celebrating the local materials, employing local skilled trades, and drawing from traditional typologies, the design team created an architecture that is uniquely African and deeply rooted in place, community, and making.
Firm: LS3P
Location: Mityana, Uganda
