Directed by Thatcher Bean
2016 / 31 min / USA
Can a building help stem the tide of large
epidemics? Haitian infectious disease specialist Dr. Jean-William Pape has
dedicated much of his life to combating diarrheal diseases that harm and kill
Haiti’s poor, many of whom lack access to clean water, toilets and latrines. In
the midst of the world’s worst cholera outbreak in over a century, Dr. Pape
challenged MASS Design Group to design a cholera treatment center where the
construction process, as well as the finished building, could address the
underlying structural and social conditions that allow cholera to thrive.