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El Centro facility - Northeastern Illinois University - Chicago, Illinois, USA - JGMA ____

JGMAが手がけた「ニール・マス＆サイエンス・アカデミー」はシカゴの郊外にある黒人と褐色のユニークな街、ノース・シカゴ学区にある。ノース・シカゴは投資に乏しいという課題に長年直面してきたが、画期的な4,000万ドルの助成金を受け、誇りと強さを象徴する青少年教育のゲームチェンジャーとなった。校舎はスポーツフィールド、屋外学習スペース、中学生とスタッフの一体感を促進する中央ノードが特徴的な5階建てで、垂直に伸びた建物は近隣の眺望と十分な自然光を提供する。カラフルな外観と二重のグラデーションのファサードは多様性を称え、同時にアクティブな雰囲気を醸し出している…

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JGMA wins Chicago Neighborhood Development Award, immediately donates prize money

The JGMA-designed El Centro has won the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award for Excellence in Community Design. (Courtesy JGMA/LISC)

As part of the 22nd annual Chicago Neighborhood Development Awards (CNDA), Chicago-based JGMA’s El Centro, along with projects from Chicago-based Landon Bone Baker and Gensler, were awarded Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Awards for Excellence in Community Design.

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For its creative reuse of an abandoned structure and its creation of a new focal point for community health issues, JGMA is the 2014 winner of the Second Place Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award for Excellence in Community Design, for its Instituto Health Sciences Career Academy.

On South Western Avenue in Pilsen, a deteriorating and abandoned industrial building has been transformed into the Instituto Health Sciences Career Academy (IHSCA), a charter high school with a health sciences and college preparatory focus that aims to train the next generation of nurses, doctors and scientists. Recruited for the job by Instituto del Progreso Latino (IDPL), the architects at JGMA repurposed the three-story, 77,000-square-foot building into a state-of-the-art facility and community anchor.

Reconceptualized as a school during a community charrette in 2007, the 1920s-era, heavy timber and brick building was expanded and renovated. A gleaming new color-morphing facade echoes the creativity within the building. This high performance skin, or “rain screen” technology, dramatically improves the thermal performance of the building envelope. The building’s bright, contemporary interior design enhances the school’s cutting-edge educational strategies and technological teaching tools. In addition to classrooms and computer labs, IHSCA is home to health career and family resource centers; a community clinic and library; a dining/multi-purpose room with a dramatic skyline view; a fitness center with a climbing wall; and administrative and conference spaces.

Categorized by “Community,” “College,” “Hospital,” and “Biotech,” each floor of the school is easily identifiable by a uniquely bright color scheme, graphics and furniture—all meant to instill a positive and energetic attitude in the school’s 600 students. The school’s curriculum integrates hands-on health sciences training with a focus on college attendance and future employment in the health care sector. In addition to a diploma, students are given the option of graduating with certification in nursing, health administration or health technology.