Student Projects
Student Work
Arch 808
Children’s Mercy Spring Hill
Location: Spring Hill, KS
Size: 28,000 SF
Team: Seppo Hoijarvi & Allison Dewey
This pediatric micro-hospital brings pediatric healthcare close to patient’s home in a semi-rural suburban area and creates healing environments that put patients and families at ease. An evidence-based design process involving literature review, design evaluation, and computer simulations led to an optimized design that features simple compact building shape, efficient layout, daylight harvesting strategies, and child-friendly scale – all contributing to pleasant experiences for children, their families and healthcare workers.
Size: 28,000 SF
Team: Seppo Hoijarvi & Allison Dewey
This pediatric micro-hospital brings pediatric healthcare close to patient’s home in a semi-rural suburban area and creates healing environments that put patients and families at ease. An evidence-based design process involving literature review, design evaluation, and computer simulations led to an optimized design that features simple compact building shape, efficient layout, daylight harvesting strategies, and child-friendly scale – all contributing to pleasant experiences for children, their families and healthcare workers.
St. Moritz Center for Winter Sports Medicine
Location: St. Moritz, Switzerland
Size: 63,000 SF
Team: Justin Gordon & Jeremy Forman
The Swiss Alps serve as a picturesque backdrop for locals and tourists to enjoy winter sports. The demand for outpatient treatment of injured athletes, combined with access to breathtaking scenery, creates a perfect opportunity to design a project focusing on using the surrounding context as a tool for treatment and holistic wellness. Patients will have access to a clinic for consultations and small procedures, physical therapy treatment spaces, spa-like environments including hot/cold plunges and hydrotherapy, and biophilic design-centered spaces that allow the natural landscapes to play a critical role in the healing process.
Size: 63,000 SF
Team: Justin Gordon & Jeremy Forman
The Swiss Alps serve as a picturesque backdrop for locals and tourists to enjoy winter sports. The demand for outpatient treatment of injured athletes, combined with access to breathtaking scenery, creates a perfect opportunity to design a project focusing on using the surrounding context as a tool for treatment and holistic wellness. Patients will have access to a clinic for consultations and small procedures, physical therapy treatment spaces, spa-like environments including hot/cold plunges and hydrotherapy, and biophilic design-centered spaces that allow the natural landscapes to play a critical role in the healing process.
Hiawatha Health Hospital
Location: Hiawatha, KS
Size: 77,000 SF
Team: Claire Ferrell & Olivia Measells
Hiawatha Health Hospital, a critical access hospital serving rural northeastern Kansas, is reimagined as a new campus that addresses the challenges of its existing 70-year-old facility, where outdated infrastructure and a poorly organized layout limit the quality and efficiency of care. Located on a pre-purchased site west of the city, the design focuses on creating a more functional, flexible, and community-oriented hospital that can support future growth. The program includes key departments such as emergency, surgery, inpatient care, laboratory, radiology, infusion, clinic, and rehabilitation, all organized to improve circulation, staff workflows, and patient access. At the same time, the design aims to create a more comfortable and welcoming environment for patients, emphasizing natural light, clarity of movement, and overall ease of use, while exploring how a rural hospital can better serve its community through thoughtful and efficient design.
Size: 77,000 SF
Team: Claire Ferrell & Olivia Measells
Hiawatha Health Hospital, a critical access hospital serving rural northeastern Kansas, is reimagined as a new campus that addresses the challenges of its existing 70-year-old facility, where outdated infrastructure and a poorly organized layout limit the quality and efficiency of care. Located on a pre-purchased site west of the city, the design focuses on creating a more functional, flexible, and community-oriented hospital that can support future growth. The program includes key departments such as emergency, surgery, inpatient care, laboratory, radiology, infusion, clinic, and rehabilitation, all organized to improve circulation, staff workflows, and patient access. At the same time, the design aims to create a more comfortable and welcoming environment for patients, emphasizing natural light, clarity of movement, and overall ease of use, while exploring how a rural hospital can better serve its community through thoughtful and efficient design.
Osage City Micro-hospital
Location: Osage City, KS
Size: 23,000 SF
Team: Emily Dulle & Kaitlyn McGriff
The team explored how healthcare architecture can respond to the evolving needs of rural and underserved communities through a flexible, human-centered micro-hospital design. Grounded in evidence-based design approach, the project examined the relationship between the built environment and the experiences of patients, support networks, healthcare professionals, and the surrounding community. Research and simulations informed key design strategies related to circulation, workflow efficiency, visibility, flexibility, daylighting, access to nature, and patient-centered care. Together, these strategies aimed to create environments that improve accessibility, support operational efficiency, reduce stress, and foster a more welcoming and supportive healthcare experience.
Size: 23,000 SF
Team: Emily Dulle & Kaitlyn McGriff
The team explored how healthcare architecture can respond to the evolving needs of rural and underserved communities through a flexible, human-centered micro-hospital design. Grounded in evidence-based design approach, the project examined the relationship between the built environment and the experiences of patients, support networks, healthcare professionals, and the surrounding community. Research and simulations informed key design strategies related to circulation, workflow efficiency, visibility, flexibility, daylighting, access to nature, and patient-centered care. Together, these strategies aimed to create environments that improve accessibility, support operational efficiency, reduce stress, and foster a more welcoming and supportive healthcare experience.
Arch 808
Embrace Fertility Center
Location: St Louis, MO
Size: 27,000 SF
Team: Yuting Liu
The rapid growth in infertility treatment demand has placed increasing pressure on existing IVF facilities, particularly in laboratory capacity, workflow efficiency, and staff workload. At the same time, patients undergoing IVF often experience high levels of emotional stress, yet many facilities remain highly clinical and insufficiently supportive of psychological well-being. The project aims to create a patient-centered IVF facility integrating high-performance labs with supportive, stress-reducing design to enhance clinical outcomes and well-being. It emphasizes building design strategies that provide desirable environmental conditions and time-based workflows to maximize embryo viability, minimize staff fatigue, and address the emotional vulnerability of patients.
Size: 27,000 SF
Team: Yuting Liu
The rapid growth in infertility treatment demand has placed increasing pressure on existing IVF facilities, particularly in laboratory capacity, workflow efficiency, and staff workload. At the same time, patients undergoing IVF often experience high levels of emotional stress, yet many facilities remain highly clinical and insufficiently supportive of psychological well-being. The project aims to create a patient-centered IVF facility integrating high-performance labs with supportive, stress-reducing design to enhance clinical outcomes and well-being. It emphasizes building design strategies that provide desirable environmental conditions and time-based workflows to maximize embryo viability, minimize staff fatigue, and address the emotional vulnerability of patients.
Little Sprouts Pediatric Center
Location: North Lawrence, KS
Size: 14,000 SF
Team: Madison Simons & Natalie Chalona
This integrated pediatric care clinic is designed to respond directly to identified community health needs while addressing gaps in local services and access to care. The project establishes key service lines and refines program elements to support a comprehensive, patient centered model that integrates physical and mental health services. Spaces are thoughtfully designed to support patients, families, and staff, fostering collaboration, clear workflows, and a welcoming environment for a range of user needs. The design prioritizes safety, wellness, and efficiency through access to daylight, intuitive wayfinding, and environments that reduce stress and support healing. Emphasis is placed on creating flexible, adaptable spaces that can evolve with changing care models while promoting high-quality care delivery, staff performance, and long-term sustainability.
Size: 14,000 SF
Team: Madison Simons & Natalie Chalona
This integrated pediatric care clinic is designed to respond directly to identified community health needs while addressing gaps in local services and access to care. The project establishes key service lines and refines program elements to support a comprehensive, patient centered model that integrates physical and mental health services. Spaces are thoughtfully designed to support patients, families, and staff, fostering collaboration, clear workflows, and a welcoming environment for a range of user needs. The design prioritizes safety, wellness, and efficiency through access to daylight, intuitive wayfinding, and environments that reduce stress and support healing. Emphasis is placed on creating flexible, adaptable spaces that can evolve with changing care models while promoting high-quality care delivery, staff performance, and long-term sustainability.
Riverbend Health Commons
Location: Kansas City, MO
Size: 28,000 SF
Team: Lauren Castaneda & Alayna Thomas
Located within a dense mixed-use district, Riverbend Health Commons reimagines the community health center as a civic wellness anchor that integrates preventative care, rehabilitation, education, movement, and social connection within an urban neighborhood environment. A central circulation spine serves as the organizational and experiential core of the
building. This feature improves intuitive navigation while visually connecting users to wellness programs, outdoor spaces, and gathering areas. Public and wellness functions are positioned along this spine to encourage movement, visibility, and engagement, while more private clinical spaces are buffered to support patient comfort and dignity. Another defining concept was the integration of biophilic and environmental wellness strategies throughout the project to reduce
stress and improve occupant wellbeing.
Size: 28,000 SF
Team: Lauren Castaneda & Alayna Thomas
Located within a dense mixed-use district, Riverbend Health Commons reimagines the community health center as a civic wellness anchor that integrates preventative care, rehabilitation, education, movement, and social connection within an urban neighborhood environment. A central circulation spine serves as the organizational and experiential core of the
building. This feature improves intuitive navigation while visually connecting users to wellness programs, outdoor spaces, and gathering areas. Public and wellness functions are positioned along this spine to encourage movement, visibility, and engagement, while more private clinical spaces are buffered to support patient comfort and dignity. Another defining concept was the integration of biophilic and environmental wellness strategies throughout the project to reduce
stress and improve occupant wellbeing.
Holistic Springs Wellness Center
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
Size: 19,000 SF
Team: Joshua Sturgill & Martin Levendusky
The project’s design concept is driven by the Biopsychosocial Model stating that biological, psychological, and social wellness are interconnected. This model informed the organization of this wellness center for young professionals into three different wellness forms: physical, emotional, and social. While each form remains its own by means of privacy, acoustics, and program, they remain integrated visually and experientially through a shared central courtyard. This strategy allows each part of wellness to be valued equally while avoiding the separation often found in wellness facilities. The courtyard acts as the heart of the project, functioning as both a restorative outdoor space and a central convergence between wellness programs. As they enter the building, users first move through the courtyard before dispersing into the physical, emotional, and social spaces. At the center of the courtyard, a communal gathering space, supports informal conversation, small classes, and community events reinforcing the courtyard’s role of being a shared wellness environment.
Size: 19,000 SF
Team: Joshua Sturgill & Martin Levendusky
The project’s design concept is driven by the Biopsychosocial Model stating that biological, psychological, and social wellness are interconnected. This model informed the organization of this wellness center for young professionals into three different wellness forms: physical, emotional, and social. While each form remains its own by means of privacy, acoustics, and program, they remain integrated visually and experientially through a shared central courtyard. This strategy allows each part of wellness to be valued equally while avoiding the separation often found in wellness facilities. The courtyard acts as the heart of the project, functioning as both a restorative outdoor space and a central convergence between wellness programs. As they enter the building, users first move through the courtyard before dispersing into the physical, emotional, and social spaces. At the center of the courtyard, a communal gathering space, supports informal conversation, small classes, and community events reinforcing the courtyard’s role of being a shared wellness environment.
Arch 609
Tammy Walker Cancer Center
Through extensive research, students Grace Craig and Sophie Palma synthesized and designed a cancer treatment facility. An individual who is diagnosed with cancer often feels as though their sense of control has been compromised. Restoring that sense of control can result in a positive healing experience. The design of the cancer clinic will allow the patient to modify or change their environment based on their personal needs. This can lead to topophilia, instilling a deep emotional connection between the patient and the clinic.
Integrated Cancer Center of Salina
The Integrated Cancer Center of Salina is an outpatient oncology center focused on providing a holistic approach
to cancer treatment. The program features many spaces that are additive to the typical cancer therapy process. Executing a successful project with such a heavily programmed space took extensive research into the process of cancer treatment before making any design choices. Also essential to creating a building that functioned well was establishing a solid set of principles that we wanted the building to respond to.
to cancer treatment. The program features many spaces that are additive to the typical cancer therapy process. Executing a successful project with such a heavily programmed space took extensive research into the process of cancer treatment before making any design choices. Also essential to creating a building that functioned well was establishing a solid set of principles that we wanted the building to respond to.
Prairie Sports & Outpatient Surgical Center
The Prairie Sports & Outpatient Surgical Center is centered around the belief that healthcare facilities are best delivered in the form of a holistic and empowering experience that provides both the patient and the staff with an efficient style of care that allows for the healing process to be completed. Together, Landon Dinkel and Andrew Pottinger analyzed the study of daylight, holistic design, and the open plan.