BABOQUIVARI COMMUNITY CLINIC

TOHONO O’ODHAMM NATION, SELLS AZ

Rural Clinic and Community Center

Fall 2022

For this project we were tasked with creating an all-encompassing clinic and community center. This project is located on the Tohono O’odham Nation Indian Reservation. Due to the lack of local healthcare facilities, most people would find themselves relying on automobile transport to Tuscon for doctors visits. For any moderately traumatic injury in the vicinity, the only option was to fly patients from the scene of the injury all the way to larger urban hospitals via helicopter. This is a costly and environmentally damaging solution to an ever present problem. The solution is to create a clinic that can serve most of these functions where it is readily available to the population and operates in an environmentally conscious manner.

Project Site

Baboquivari Peak

Massing Narrative

Single-story building allows for uniform accessibility

Divide according to function: Community Spaces and Clinic

Create relationship with both the local landscape and the monumental Baboquivari Peak

Invite sunlight and healing into the Clinic through a 360° clerestory

MULTI-FUNCTION FLEX SPACE

Clinic Waiting Area