Archinect - News 2024-11-15T02:42:45-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/117117228/mass-design-group-s-new-open-air-clinics-in-haiti-reviewed-by-michael-kimmelman MASS Design Group's new Open-Air Clinics in Haiti, reviewed by Michael Kimmelman Alexander Walter 2014-12-29T14:10:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/24/2489ceecb95b56727b72233559a2000c?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The clinics here are simple, even handsome. Instead of constructing hermetic shields in the form of airtight, inflexible hospital buildings, the architects took advantage of Haiti&rsquo;s Caribbean environment, exploiting island cross breezes to heal patients and aid caregivers. It&rsquo;s not clear yet how well the clinics will work. [...] If they turn out right, they could serve as relatively light-footed models for other struggling countries that lack resources for high-end Western-style hospitals.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>