HEALTH & THE CITY

Trust within healthcare has been a large topic over the years. As a studio we have learned a lot about the importance that trust plays on...

As our semester starts to wrap up so have our hospital visits. Since our studio has been focused on Community Health from the beginning...

The Bloomingdale Trail used to be a 2.7-mile railrod on the northside of Chicago. The Chicago government converted it into an elevated...

Studio Gang has a passion for community infrastructure. They’ve done a variety of projects that focus on enhancing the lifestyle of the...

We may not get the opportunity as often to see a project that takes all aspects of a community and blends them together to give back to...

Of the many construction site tours that I’ve had the opportunity of exploring this semester, this was organized outside of our Health &...

Chicago's 606 Bloomingdale Trail was a unused relic of a railroad which is now turned into a public park and open space. It is a 2.7 mile...

Rails to Trails - 606 The Bloomingdale Line was a 2.7-mile elevated railroad that ran east-west on the northwest side of Chicago; that...

Learning from the two hospital visits to Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and La Rabida Children's Hospital, the...

We got the opportunity to visit the Skender Chicago office last week where we met with Mark Skender and Tim Swanson. Skender, previously...

"A Hospital Without Walls" written in collaboration with Noopur Thakkar Intro: In collaboration with HDR, our task this semester has been...

As we've discussed throughout the semester, isolation is a public health epidemic in the United States. A study done in 2015 at BYU shows...

While driving back into the City I passed an Oasis Station that sat above the highway and was coupled with an i-pass station. This got me...

"Can you smell that?" "What do you think that is?" "Oh, this one is vanilla!" Just after our visit to Lurie's Children's Hospital, Lena...

During our discussion on therapeutic gardens we decided to check out one of the cities most famous parks and also our neighbor to the...

La UVA is an architecturally and landscaped design for the city of Medellin, more so made for the people of entire city's community. I...

After a trip to Lurie Childrens Hospital located just off of Michigan Avenue it got me thinking about the differences between children's...

When Professor Worn asked about what each of our ideas about a therapeutic garden or a therapeutic environment was, I stated that for me...

When reflecting upon the idea of a healing environment, we often associate it to be with a hospital setting or a healthcare facility. But...