0 AS IS
1 REMOVE GROUND FLOOR
2 REMOVE FLOOR SLABS
3 CONNECT THE PEOPLE
This allows for an urban plaza that will act as crossroads of Northwestern’s campus. A refection pool marks where the tower touches the ground. The tower becomes the healing nucleus nucleus of the campus.
The tower’s sculptural beauty is enhanced and celebrated while ceilings are heightened in the podium.
A continuation of Northwestern’s existing sky bridge network connects patients, students, and staff through a hub of activity.
3 SPACES FOR RELAXATION
4 OUTDOORS, INDOORS
5 THE AXIS OF THE CAMPUS
5 ENCLOSED SANCTUARY
The Healing Center offers patients, visitors and staff a place to escape the confinement of the hospital. A cafe, spa, and chapel offer what they are looking for. Spaces appear to float amongst the crossing skybridges
A park then tops the podium and surrounds the stalk of the tower. The park is a retreat elevated from the city sculpted to be a place of repose, refreshment, and recovery.
Visitors can access from a stair or elevator in the core as well as the skybridges. The Garden and the Void is meant to be a hub of the communities healing and social health.
A screen covers the facade elements while a crystal glass structure encloses the park into a winter garden.
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