We’ve been taught to see architecture as singular forms. Buildings are envisioned as discrete objects placed within a Cartesian field. However, the ambition of this thesis re-conceives the project of architecture as an interface between a person and their context. Rather than architecture standing as a singular form, it instead engages in the social act. The physical manifestation of the architecture would then not represent some abstract ideal, it manifests the potential for the user to engage with the architecture and the institution of healthcare in new and never entirely
predictable ways.

The idea that health should be preventative and proactive rather than reactionary was explored through the architectural intervention of a community health center coupled with a library, legal aid office, and job placement program. This assortment of programs was chosen because the model for public healthcare currently fails as a singular form, as a monolithic institution. Effective architecture addresses the social imbalances present; the project effects an area that extends beyond the typical
architectural site.