Star Homes Project – The house that fights malaria

The Star Homes project consists of 110 identical, single-family homes constructed across 60 different villages in rural Mtwara, one of the more underdeveloped regions of Tanzania, with a high incidence of malaria, respiratory tract infections, and diarrhoea. These houses combine a series of design interventions to improve family health into a single house, and form the basis of a randomised clinical trial, which aims to provide robust data to show whether improved housing can improve family health. Designed by the Danish Royal Academy, the exhibition will showcase the architectural, clinical, and social studies led by Jakob Knudsen, Salum Mshamu, and Lorenz von Seidlein, while also shedding light on the human story behind the Star Homes through data-driven findings and firsthand narratives, and photography by Julien Lanoo.

An exhibition by the Danish Royal Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation presented at LABÒ Cultural Project.