As part of the architect’s ongoing commitment to his native country, David Adjaye has revealed designs for a massive new public infrastructure project that will provide over 100 new healthcare facilities to the people of Ghana.

Dubbed Agenda 111, the government-backed initiative will add 101 district hospitals as well as 10 new regional hospitals to the rapidly developing West African nation. The existing Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital will be provided with a much-needed restoration as well.  

“By approaching the hospital as more than just a place for the provision of medical services, the design scheme aims to unlock the potential of this ambitious initiative by repositioning the hospital as a piece of community infrastructure that embodies sustainability, efficiency, and generously provides green spaces to facilitate wellness and healing,” the firm said in a statement.

Ghana’s infrastructure has been steadily improving since the country’s economy began expanding in 2003. Now, backed by a mandate from the country’s Ministry of Health, Adjaye Associates is set to expand on its already impressive portfolio of infrastructure projects in Ghana, which to date, includes the new parliamentary chamber and National Cathedral in Accra.

Each hospital complex will feature a 15-acre scheme that incorporates state-of-the-art technologies with a design motif taken largely from Ghanaian traditions and folklore such as the Adinkra symbols and Denkyem mythology.

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The District Hospitals present an opportunity to transform Ghana’s medical system by establishing unparalleled access to healthcare facilities throughout the country.

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Via a series of one-story buildings, individual campuses are built around improved wayfinding and adaptability concerns, with bifurcated patient wards for improved air and light flow, alternating gable or butterfly roofs (dependent on location), a central garden, and ancillary green spaces that “punctuate the plan and provide an overall atmosphere of healing crucial for patients,” according to the architect.