MFA-2 THESIS PROJECTS
Antonio A. Rodríguez Argüelles Atlántico Senior Health Center antonioara07@gmail.com Project Type: Healthcare
Chandara Sunder Learning Center for Children with Developmental Delays ramya_esakki@yahoo.com Project Type: Educational
The Atlántico Senior Health Center groups together some of the most common healthcare services the Puerto Rican senior population needs under one roof, making them easily accessible, while reducing wait times and offering comfortable and inviting facilities. The 55,000-square-foot center incorporates public spaces and waiting areas, a health food concession, healing gardens, and small locations for a pharmacy, beauty salon/barbershop, and food market. Forced perspectives, architectural sunshades, and different elements of biophilia were used as main design concepts.
This center utilizes a communal approach to design that enables collaboration among children, teachers, and parents with a belief that children learn from one another. The center has a number of differently scaled spaces, from the wide open and connected to nature, to the more private, tiny nooks. This design enables developmentally delayed children to learn to live life in a vast world of all kinds of spaces.
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