To encourage the Kigutu indigenous outdoor communal culture, the oversized porch doors will seamlessly connect the inside and out, welcoming all who enter into a series of public living spaces. Similarly the ten double private sleeping rooms, each with its own personal vividly colored entry porch, echo this semi-permeable sensibility. The porosity of the porches will encourage sociability, enhance air flow into the adjacent sleeping rooms, and simultaneously frame magnificent unobstructed transverse views of the landscape beyond.
Village Health Works in Burundi
The design of the 20 bed Staff Residence for Village Health Works in Kigutu by Louise Braverman Architects merges architecture, landscape and sustainability.
To encourage the Kigutu indigenous outdoor communal culture, the oversized porch doors will seamlessly connect the inside and out, welcoming all who enter into a series of public living spaces. Similarly the ten double private sleeping rooms, each with its own personal vividly colored entry porch, echo this semi-permeable sensibility. The porosity of the porches will encourage sociability, enhance air flow into the adjacent sleeping rooms, and simultaneously frame magnificent unobstructed transverse views of the landscape beyond.