Purpose-Built: MASS and the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund Collaborationįounded by the legendary Dian Fossey, the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund is the world’s largest and longest-running organization dedicated to gorilla conservation. The project employed more than 2,400 Rwandans in its design and construction, accounting for 99 percent of the total labor. The campus also marked the first project completed by MASS’s construction company, MASS.Build. An extensive living laboratory was created on the former agricultural site through the planting of more than 250,000 native plants and the use of green roofs, rainwater harvesting, and a constructed wetland for wastewater treatment.įrom the start, MASS and the Fossey Fund worked in partnership to develop all aspects of the project-from visioning, architectural and landscape design, engineering, construction, furniture fabrication, exhibition design, and media-while leveraging its impact on the surrounding community and advancing the Fossey Fund’s mission. Local labor and materials were used throughout design and construction to minimize the campus footprint, develop an immersive reforested landscape, and ensure job training and economic return to the local community while creating a modern facility for public use and education.Īdjacent to the Volcanoes National Park on the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the campus has three main buildings: the Sandy and Harold Price Research Center, the Cindy Broder Conservation Gallery, and the Rob and Melani Walton Education Center, as well as housing for visiting students and researchers. The 12-acre campus models MASS’s “Purpose-Built” methodology, which balances and evaluates capital infrastructure alongside a project's mission, design, and feasibility. The Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund is a multi-building, $13.4 million investment that anchors the region as a conservation hub for ecological preservation and education in Africa.
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