Steven Holl Architects' "Colors of Humanity" wins competition for new Doctors Without Borders center in Geneva

The Center will provide workstations, meeting rooms, classrooms, and social spaces for staff who support the activities of more than 6,500 field staff covering missions in 23 countries. It will also house the "International Office."

Plans for the interior call for criss-crossing passages, lined with seating alcoves and small-scale social gathering spaces that will encourage dialogue and interaction. With curved forms, "these centers serve as a friendly catalyst for interaction, acting like social condensers within the building" the firm explained.

Steven Holl Architects and Rüssli Architekten were unanimously selected in the international competition with the Center's Logistics Director stating: “Steven Holl Architects’ project is the opportunity for MSF to integrate its core values like independence, impartiality, neutrality, altruism and dynamism in a challenging new architecture and project itself in the future.”

Holl is similarly excited by the opportunity for the project, planned for Spring of 2016. “Doctors Without Borders, MSF, is an inspiring organization. It is an honor to realize architecture for their Geneva home,” he said.