Anshen + Allen performed the work pro bono to support the nonprofit organization Containers to Clinics (C2C), which delivers primary health care to women and children in the developing world.

According to Anshen + Allen, the project was completed in one-third the time that it would have required if the designers had relied on 2D software instead of 3D. In addition to material, profile, window, and rendering tools in ArchiCAD, Anshen + Allen also used ArtLantis to produce renderings.

Elizabeth Sheehan, executive director of C2C is a trained physicians assistant, and while working in clinics and hospitals in countries like Nepal, India and Indonesia, she saw the need for improved access to preventive health care.

Then last year, Sheehan read an article titled “The Global Health Burden” in Foreign Affairs magazine, in which health economist Laurie Garrett highlighted the lack of preventive health care in developing countries and laid out a solution: convert shipping containers into health clinics for use there.

“Shipping Containers litter the world,” Sheehan says, “they’re often used once and they sit there.” Sheehan founded the group Containers to Clinics, or C2C, that turns the containers into health clinics.

Containers to Clinics