Tambacounda Hospital is the only hospital in a very large region of eastern Senegal. It serves the residents of the city of Tambacounda, and more than a million people from the surrounding area and from Mali, whose border is about an hour and a half away.
The Tambacounda Hospital extension designed by Manuel Herz Architects is the culmination of a long relationship between the Albers Foundation and Senegal, which in 2015 launched THREAD designed pro bono by New York based architecture firm Toshiko Mori, a cultural centre for local inhabitants of the rural village of Sinthian. Since its establishment THREAD has hosted numerous global artists and creatives, and has become a meeting place for cultural exchange and dialogue.

Tambacounda Hospital has 150 beds and treats approximately 9,000 patients annually, most often for malaria and respiratory infections. Because Tambacounda is a crossroads of major international routes, in a country where the roads are in bad condition and often dangerous, its emergency room treats, each month, some 300 victims of car accidents. The hospital also takes in patients who need levels of medical care that cannot be provided at smaller clinics in the region, including those supported by Le Korsa in the villages of Sinthian and Fass.
 

Description of project by Manuel Herz Architects

Tambacounda Hospital is the only hospital in a large region of eastern Senegal. It serves the 100,000 inhabitants of the city of Tambacounda - declared the hottest metropolis on the planet - and more than a million people from the surrounding region and Mali, whose border is about an hour and a half away.

The new maternity and pediatric clinic at Tambacounda Hospital is a two-storey, curvilinear building. It combines the two clinics - pediatrics and maternity - in the same building. It is located to the north of the existing pediatric clinic and revolves around it, then changes direction to create a new, semi-closed, north-facing courtyard. The curvilinear layout creates a building with sensual quality while ensuring that almost no trees need to be cut for its construction.

On the ground floor are the main parts of the maternity ward and the operations unit. One floor higher, we find the remaining rooms of the patients of the maternity and the pediatric clinic. The existing building of the former pediatric clinic will be converted into a home, office, and consultation space for both clinics. The existing building is connected to the new building by a short covered walkway.

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Manuel Herz Architects, Basel.
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Project Team
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Manuel Herz, Moussa Belkacem, Penny Alevizou.
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Total Floor Area.- ca. 3,000 sqm.
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Josef and Annie Albers Foundation. Client Representative.- Matthias Persson.
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Construction Start.- Autum 2018.
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Manuel Herz Architects is an office for architecture and urban planning, based in Basel, Switzerland and Cologne, Germany. Amongst the recently constructed buildings is the Jewish Community Center of Mainz, the mixed-use building ‘Legal / Illegal’ in Cologne, and a museum extension (with Eyal Weizman and Rafi Segal) in Ashdod, Israel. Current projects include housing projects in Cologne, Zürich and Lyon. The projects have received several prizes such as the German Facade Prize 2011, the Cologne Architecture Prize 2003, the German Architecture Prize for Concrete in 2004 and a nomination for the Mies van der Rohe Prize for European Architecture, 2011.

Manuel Herz studied at the RWTH Aachen, and the Architectural Association in London. After teaching at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London, the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam and Harvard Graduate School of Design he was head of the teaching and research at ETH Studio Basel - Institute of the Contemporary City. After a visiting professorship  at the ETH Zürich 2012-2014, he has been appointed professor of architecural and urban design at the University of Basel. Besides his work as a practicing architect he researches and publishes on the relationship between architecture and nation building, and on refugee camps. His books include 'From Camp to City - The Refugee Camps of the Western Sahara' (Lars Müller Publishers) and 'African Modernism - Architecture of Independence' (Park Books Publishers).
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Published on: June 14, 2018
Cite: "Tambacounda Hospital expansion by Manuel Herz Architects" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/tambacounda-hospital-expansion-manuel-herz-architects> ISSN 1139-6415
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