MASS DESIGN GROUP

MASS Design Group is a nonprofit architecture firm. Their first project, the Butaro Hospital (Rwanda, 2011), employed architectural solutions to mitigate the transmission of airborne disease and spurred local markets by hiring and training over 4,000 community members. Today, the team works across Rwanda, Uganda, Liberia, Haiti and the US, conducting immersive research in communities not only to build context-appropriate, safer, and healthier facilities, but also to leverage local material markets, lead training workshops, spur craft development and foster economic empowerment. MASS believes that this inclusive process is the key to healthier and more resilient communities, and so invests in people to drive positive change.