Good Shepherd Hospital Health + Fitness Center,
Barrington, Ill.

Development Team
GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Pepper Construction Co., Chicago
ARCHITECT: Phillips Swager Associates, Chicago
ELECTRICAL: Nesko Electric, Broadview, Ill.
PLUMBING: Performance Plumbing & Heating Co., Crestwood, Ill.
HVAC: McCauley Mechanical, Bridgeview, Ill.
POOLS: Paragon Aquatech, Wheeling, Ill.

"Healing architecture" can help the condition of the mind and body. With this objective, Good Shepherd Hospital set out to create a benchmark wellness center.

The site is relatively small for a facility of its size, thereby necessitating compactness in the building to allow sufficient area for parking. Further complicating matters was that the site has a significant southeast-to-northwest slope.

These proved to be assets.

A two-story facade along the west acknowledges the adjoining major roadway, and as a visitor enters the site, the scale drops to a pedestrian orientation along the east.

The jury said, "A nicely designed space that was made to look very inviting."

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