Size

Site: 540 acres
Build: 79,653 sq. ft. / 7,400 sq. m.

Year

2014

Status

Completed

Client

St. Boniface Hospital Foundation

Portrait of Chris Scovel, RA, LEED
Chris Scovel, RA, LEED
Design Director
Chris Scovel

Chris Scovel, RA, LEED

Design Director

Chris joined MASS in 2011 and has worked on multiple projects in East and West Africa, India, Haiti and the US. He has lead design teams for new large hospital complexes, new hospital buildings, and renovations. He has worked closely with MASS’s Haiti team, advising on the construction of the completed GHESKIO CTC and TB Hospital. Additionally, he deeply values his role as an occasional mentor to a broad range of projects and individuals at MASS. He values the intensely collaborative aspect of MASS’s work both within the office and with our partners and clients. For instance, he recently worked closely with IDEO.org and the Gates Foundation on a project to design public toilets for the developing world. Prior to MASS, Chris worked as an architect in Boston providing design, project management, and construction administration expertise on multiple institutional projects, which included libraries, courthouses, and a wide variety of academic buildings. Chris is a registered and LEED certified architect. He received his Masters in Architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.

Design Team

Adam Saltzman, Christian Benimana, Chris Scovel, Kayihura Nyundo

The St. Boniface Hospital serves as the district hospital for a catchment population of 120,000 and sees over 3,000 patients per year. Located inland on Haiti’s south peninsula, in the remote town of Fond-de-Blancs, it has experienced piecemeal growth since its founding in 1983.

Like kindred hospitals in remote, rural locations across the globe, it finds itself committed to job-training, economic development, infrastructure and education in order to promote the health of not just individual patients, but their communities.

Strained for resources and space, the facility worked with MASS to address its need for a new maternity ward, laboratory, as well as masterplan for a future facility expansion. For extraordinary institutions like St. Boniface Hospital, which struggle heroically with their daily mission of providing healthcare, it is an enormous challenge to take the time and resources to make long-term master planning commitments. MASS’s challenge was to help them through this process and provide a visionary goal that was within reach.