The Osa Center for Medicinal Plant
Research + Shamanistic Healing is located on a rainforest preserve in southern
Costa Rica’s remote Península de Osa.
The Osa Center brings together both traditional shaman healers as well
as biomedical doctors to engage in medicinal plant research and provide
clinical services to the local community.
The Center seeks to provide an economically viable and sustainable use
of the rainforest through medicinal plant cultivation, as well as to
simultaneously preserve and share the contents of the rainforest and the
knowledge of the shamans.
Architecturally the Osa’s minimal, open vernacular of the shamans receives
biomedicine’s technology-dependent, controlled spaces.