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Business Mayor
21-05-2025
- Health
- Business Mayor
adjaye associates unveils rammed earth children's cancer research centre for ghana
The design for an International Children's Cancer Research Centre, recently unveiled by Adjaye Associates, begins with the land. Set to perch along the eastern slopes of the Atewa Range in Kyebi, Ghana, the proposed ICCRC is grounded in its setting before it rises in form. From the approach, the landscape of dense forests and filtered sunlight sets the tone. It is this atmosphere of continuity that guides the healthcare facility's masterplan, which holds the promise of both care and research for West Africa's youngest cancer patients. The center is designed as a holistic campus for the Wish4Life Foundation. Adjaye Associates organizes the 225,000-square-meter site into a network of buildings that hold more than function. Each structure — hospital, research lab, training institute, family residence, and chapel — participates in a larger rhythm of movement and repose. The spaces are open to the air and shaded from the sun, responding to the region's climate as well as its cultural logics. The unimposing architecture settles into the terrain with a clarity that seeks to invite trust. visualizations © Adjaye Associates adjaye associates draws from Akan Traditions With the International Children's Cancer Research Centre, the architects at Adjaye Associates draw from the Akan worldview. This proposes that illness results from a disturbance of personal, communal, and environmental harmony. Courtyards shaped like the Fihankra, or traditional compound, organize the campus into nested zones of rest and interaction. These enclosures hold the cadence of daily life, offering open-air rooms for conversation, reflection, and retreat. In Adjaye Associates' design, care is inseparable from architecture. The complex will be built from earth — rammed, pressed, and baked into slabs and bricks. Timber and clay, shaped by local hands, bring continuity between building and community. The Welcome Centre greets patients and families with the soft tactility of earth walls, while concrete screens in clinical zones reference Kente cloth, a gesture to ancestral pattern and meaning. Each material carries its own history into the future. Adjaye Associates unveils a cancer research center as a new model for pediatric care in Ghana A new precedent for a Cancer Research Centre Adjaye Associates follows a low-energy design ethos with its International Children's Cancer Research Centre. The team employs passive cooling techniques, photovoltaic systems, and orientation strategies specific to the site. These decisions are embedded in the architecture, not appended to it, forming an infrastructure of resilience. The goal is to create a self-sustaining facility that can adapt to environmental change while maintaining a high standard of care. Here, a different model for pediatric healthcare is proposed. It refuses the imported template of compartmentalized buildings and anonymous corridors. Instead, it cultivates a campus in which care, learning, worship, and research support one another in spatial continuity. This vision expands the definition of a hospital, suggesting that architecture itself can foster dignity, belonging, and healing. A presentation of the proposal is currently exhibited at the Time Space Existence show during the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. It will be housed in Palazzo Bembo through November, and places Ghana on an international stage. the ICCRC is sited on the forested slopes of the Atewa Range in Kyebi Read More The Zillow App Will Now Show a Home's Climate Risks the campus integrates clinical research, educational, and residential functions into one connected whole materials such as rammed earth, brick, and timber are locally-sourced and crafted by local builders
Arab News
28-02-2025
- General
- Arab News
What We Are Reading Today: ‘Greatness: Diverse Designers of Architecture'
Author: Pascale Sablan By shedding light on overlooked figures in architecture, 'Greatness: Diverse Designers of Architecture,' published this year, makes an urgent and necessary contribution to the field. At about 200 pages, this richly detailed book by Pascale Sablan, award-winning architect and CEO of Adjaye Associates, presents an anthology of diverse designers who have reshaped the built environment. The book features essays, project case studies and a much-needed deep dive into architectural typologies, spanning residential, institutional and master planning. Sablan, a millennial architect from New York, has spent her career advocating for equity and inclusion in architecture. 'Women and designers of color play a crucial role in realizing many of the world's greatest architectural projects, yet our recognition is still significantly lacking,' she rightfully states. Through this book, she seeks to correct that oversight, offering an expansive look at how diverse perspectives have long shaped the field. The book highlights 40 groundbreaking US-based and international projects, emphasizing themes of dignity, sustainability and social justice. It also explores architecture's historical role in systemic injustices such as redlining and housing discrimination while illustrating how inclusive design can lead to meaningful change. 'When I started this career, I had no idea how many women and people of color were behind the iconic buildings that I have come to know and love,' she states. Blending insightful essays, case studies, and profiles of 47 architects and designers from diverse backgrounds, 'Greatness' underscores how architecture can serve as a tool for empowerment. The featured architects tackle some of the industry's most pressing challenges, including housing injustice, environmental sustainability and community development. She ensures that some of these vital voices are finally highlighted. While not a comprehensive list, the book serves as a crucial guide, urging readers to recognize these architects as the 'greats' she sees them to be. Released during Black History Month in the US, 'Greatness' challenges the industry to rethink who gets to be called 'great' in architecture and how we can all expand upon our definition. Easy to read, easy to reference and easy to look at, it is a great addition to your coffee table collection.
