Andrew Foster & James Lennon | Integrated Design Studio 2014 | Professor P. Marks | Design Reflection
Project Thesis
The concept of wellness in Cleveland’s Warehouse District responds to the growing need to accommodate the growing number of permanent residents in the area. Our intent realized the need to create a space that the community as a whole could interact and grow with. A facility that engages the growing community and responds to the specific needs of a diverse range of demographical groups will not only strengthen each individual, but the overall wellness of the heart of Cleveland. Rather than responding to a specific user type, this wellness facility will be open to all members of the community while providing an interactive atmosphere that will promote growth, progress, and sustainability through all aspects of wellness. With this communal atmosphere, members of the community will grow together and mix together
to strengthen every aspect of the District’s goals, values and health. The users of this facility will be open to anybody that could benefit from physical, occupational, emotional, intellectual, spiritual and social building. Every age will benefit from the building’s program which will provide a wide arrange of alternative wellness programs that responds specifically to the needs of the user. By doing this, the community will be able to grow with the building, experiencing it new ways as they get older. The combination of a diverse group of users in each aspect of wellness is important to allow the community to unify. A community is only as strong as its members and this facility creates a new venue to allow this progression to take place.