Healing Board: Where Architecture Plays, Heals, and Belongs

Khaoula Mrad

A Pediatric Clinic in Senegal – Designed for Resilience and Joy

In a world where healing is often confined within sterile walls, Healing Board dares to breathe, to play, to belong. Inspired by the Mancala game, this pediatric clinic in Senegal transcends the idea of a mere medical facility—it becomes a village of care, where children heal through movement, warmth, and laughter.

A grid of modular cubes crowned by domes, the structure dances with the wind and light, shaping shaded courtyards, breezy pathways, and spaces where tradition meets modernity. Under the mentorship of Raul Pantaleo (TAMassociati), and alongside Alarico Ruffino and Karim Constantin Irani, this project emerged as an architecture of empathy, where every wall tells a story, every space cradles a child’s laughter.

Here, healing is not passive—it is an act of engagement, a rhythm of life woven into the fabric of the land.