Child Legacy Vocational Masterplan

Msundwe, Malawi

Child Legacy’s work near Msundwe serves a dispersed rural population whose needs do not fit neatly into one building. The vocational master plan therefore treats the campus as a network: skills training, healthcare, housing, and shared services are organized so they can reinforce one another and grow over time.

Child Legacy Vocational Masterplan architectural visualization with watercolor and blueprint details

The story

A rural campus planned as connected infrastructure.

Aerial view of the existing Child Legacy International campus and agricultural plots in Msundwe, Malawi

Child Legacy’s work near Msundwe serves a dispersed rural population whose needs do not fit neatly into one building. The vocational master plan therefore treats the campus as a network: skills training, healthcare, housing, and shared services are organized so they can reinforce one another and grow over time. Workshops and learning spaces support practical education; health facilities anchor care; residential components help staff and participants remain connected to the site. Infrastructure, circulation, and future phases are considered at the scale of the whole campus, avoiding a collection of isolated projects that compete for limited resources.

Journeyman International’s role was to give the organization a coherent framework for decisions—what belongs together, what can be built first, and how later additions can preserve a clear, useful place. The surviving Drive record is uneven and does not establish construction, so this story remains deliberately at the master-plan level. Its value is strategic: design provides a shared map for long-term investment in local capability and services.

Final program masterplan grouping the proposed vocational school, agricultural space, staff housing, student dormitories, and health unit around the existing campus
Program diagram for the proposed vocational school, placing classrooms and workshops around a central courtyard and separating noisy from quiet activities
Program diagram for the proposed staff-housing and student-dormitory clusters, each arranged around shared courtyards