Housed at Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital in the Debra Ann November Wing, a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to autism treatment, education, and research, Cleveland Clinic Center for Autism is uniquely integrated within the health-care system and the center’s Shaker campus location, where it began providing services in 1998. During its first years, the center offered limited diagnostic services and a small outreach program, primarily providing consultation and training for parents who were establishing home-based behavioral treatment programs for their children with autism. In 2000, in response to community demand, the program expanded dramatically, adding more specialized diagnostic and treatment services and a full-day, nonpublic chartered school, along with continued consultation and training programs.
Below is a link to the centre website and video.
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/childrens_hospital/departments/autism_center/default.aspx
It is stated that the centre is a "state of the art" facility, built from the ground up to cater for the induvidual needs of Autistic children. The question I ask is does its Architectural language confrom to this theory also?
Is it a case of less is more?
With this case study I feel that the managment of the childs evironment along with facilities provided take precedent.
It is my aim to provide a building which can take the princples laid down by the Cleveland Centre and transfer them into its architectural languge and spacial planning.
