Meant to be located on the top two floors of the Bayard-Condict Building in Noho, the purpose of the integrative health center is to create a sustainable space that offers both traditional Western medical care and alternative services, such as yoga, meditation spaces, and massages. Focusing on a single disease, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, the project was meant to serve as a space that helps ease the specific symptoms of the disorder.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome consumes the patient in an overwhelming ‘pea soup’ fog and prevents them from actively participating in everyday life with debilitating fatigue. The purpose of this integrative health center is to help lift the patient out of this fog by creating spaces that transition from dark to bright, light, and open in order to mentally and physically break through the fatigue. Using the orthogonal qualities inherent in the building’s structure, each space is rectilinear except in the transitional areas as patients move from one space to another. These thresholds provide privacy, allow for increased airflow, and allow for additional seating and storage throughout the health center.
This collage was created using images from the previous threshold model and meant to portray the visual and emotional transition through the space.
This ink drawing further explores the transition from dark to light as a way to open up and alleviate the pain and clouded darkness that comes from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
Final Plan, Top Floor
Final Drawings, Lower Floor
Final Section
Study Model
Study Model
Final Model
Final Model