EXTRA LARGE

Global Poverty & Malnutrition

Nuclear Radiation

Space Junk

Man-M

nade Dsisasters

Gloabl Waste Political Instability

Natural

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ters

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ange

Gene

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ified F

oods

Drug Trade Environmental Degredation

Violence & Terrorism Slum Developments

Weak

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Hu

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onom

ic Hard

ship

Infectious Diseases Sick Building Syndrom

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Poor Living Conditions

Sed

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Diseases of Affluenc

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LARGE

MEDIUM

SMALL

After analyzing Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture, we understood health in a much broader spectrum. Architecture in its loosest connotations can be defined as both the built and virtual realities of our time. Using this framework, we have classified problems under four broad categories: Small, Medium, Large and Extra Large.

The future of our designed space is looking increasingly bright as we solve many of the problems displayed below. The role of design serves ultimately as a catalyst for positive change, in order to secure a safer and healthier future for our societies and generations to come.

Healing by Design

Personal

Local

Urban

Global

• Sustainable Chemistry Initiative by Walmart

• Cradle to Cradle Design• Organic Food Trade

Defined by our immediate surroundings, our health is affected on a personal level by what we eat, clothes we wear and things we come across in our daily lives.

Local spaces include the confines of our homes and the buildings we inhabit.

Urban spaces are defined as shared public areas in cities and the built environment.

Looking beyond countries, global space includes the entire planet Earth and beyond.

• Villa Savoye | Paris• 41 Cooper Square | NYC• Danish Pavillion | Shanghai

• Transmilenio | Bogota • Biblioteca Santo

Domingo | Medellín• Homeless World Cup |

Rio de Janeiro

• World Resource Institute• Ocean Clean up Array• Laser Guided Space

Harpoons

Guiterrez, Morris, Newsome, Puente and Sahiwala