Cross-Border Collaboration: In a remote village in southern Burundi, an American architect joins forces with the local community to build a simple and sensitive dormitory for health-care staff.
In a construction photo, dozens of men in bright yellow hard hats dig foundations in coffee-brown soil. Humpbacked mountain ridges disappear in the equatorial mist. In the remote village of Kigutu, in the densely populated but rural east central-African nation of Burundi, you see no backhoes, pickup trucks, or power tools. Just picks, shovels, and wheelbarrows. That suggests the many challenges New York architect Louise Braverman had to understand in designing a deceptively simple 6,000-square-foot dormitory for health-care workers in one of the most impoverished places on earth.
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