Vision Statement
Program Development
The Community Health District team is striving to improve overall connections between the health services in the area of St. Alphonsus and the surrounding community of the central bench. There is a current disconnect happening between the hospital and the rest of the bench, so softening the street interface of the hospital area will help connect the community back to St. Alphonsus. One of our goals is to increase the connection and accessibility between St. Alphonsus and the surrounding central bench community, most notably the international market. Additionally, we seek to improve public perception of the hospital by improving hospital outreach programs. The use of outreach programs to improve the overall health of the community is also a top priority, and can be accomplished through the suggested improvements.
Our teams objective is to provide a stronger connection between the community and the hospital in order to provide access and amenities for community members, hospital visitors, and staff. What makes the health district special is its potential to become a major resource for fostering community health. The location of the densest health services falls in between residences and mixed use areas that offer commercial and retail services. This provides a unique opportunity for future connection and development between nodes and existing gaps in connectivity.
Partis
• Employment Services; Our design should include locations where job skills can be taught to help individuals gain employment. • Refugee Interpreters. There us an existing lack of interpreters at St. Alphonsus that forces refugees to search elsewhere for health services. • New community gardens that tie to parks and open spaces, as well as community programs. These uses for new open spaces can focus on becoming therapeutic gardens and/or horticultural therapy areas. • Defining St. Alphonsus as a Campus, improving accessibility/making it easier to navigate for pedestrians. (recommend parking structure to reduce sprawl) • Consistent design guidelines, uniformity in signage, maps, graphics, etc. . . . • Seamless transition into multi-modal transportation corridors. • Strong connection to the international market (increasing community outreach)
Interface
Community
Circulation
Connections
Concept Development Healthcare District in Relation to Surrounding Nodes
Healthcare District in Relation to Parks & Activity Hubs
• Explores existing grid system and nodes of interest in the Central Bench
• Spatial relationship between the health district and surrounding nodes • There is a gap in services around the health district, such as commercial and mixed use, but there are many services across the barrier of I-84 or towards downtown. • Blue= heavy commercial areas like shopping centers and malls • Green = existing park spaces • Red = density of health services • Black = circulation • What worked in this diagram was the gap that appeared in commercial services, and the window of opportunity to fill it.
• Shows connection from 1-84 through Boise to surrounding cities like Nampa and Idaho Falls. • Recognizes the proximity to downtown Boise and the Tank Farms • What worked in this diagram was the proximity from the hospital to nodes • The nodes shown to the left have been highlighted as the most vital to the scope of the project as it relates to the health district. Other nodes and activity centers may emerge upon further development and collaboration with other teams.
Community Health District - Boise Central Bench
LAEP 4100 - Caroline Lavoie -Thomas Terry, Yuning Fang, Po Yu Ho, Megan Criss