The project involves the participatory elaboration of an incremental development framework, leveraging the planning & future construction of a new hospital and related staff-housing, to set appropriate development standards for the town of Semonkong in rural Lesotho.

Bantu led a long and articulated multi-stakeholder participatory engagement process to both inform overall planning & design choices and to co-produce the initial spatial framework and an impact strategy linked to the hospital and housing projects implementation, aiming to maximize socio-economic and environmental benefits of future development. This is done by re-contextualizing infrastructure around local understanding of resource-scarcity & livelihood dynamics, promoting the use of nature-based solutions for risk management and service delivery, linking construction processes to knowledge transfer & community up-skilling, and setting more appropriate architectural and building references for the community for the future development of the town. The framework creates a low-tech water management scheme for the promotion of continued urban/town agricultural activities as the population grows.