Study Architecture 
ProPEL 
Author(s): David Kratzer, Stephanie Muth & Louis N. Hunter
The Jefferson Health Hansjörg Wyss Wellness Center is located in an underserved community in southeast Philadelphia populated by an ethnically and economically diverse community including long term residents of middle-income levels and new-comers at or below the poverty line.1 In Fall 2022, Thomas Jefferson University Architecture (Arch) and Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) students/ faculty collaborated in an interdisciplinary “design thinking” studio with the goal of proposing design interventions to improve the connection between the Center and the surrounding community using “movement, mobility and accessibility” as central themes for research and design. This paper will present the studio work and methodologies as well as disseminate the explorations and basic findings of the course. The discussion will speculate on the potential of formalizing this interdisciplinary pairing in promoting the importance of movement, mobility and accessibility as key components to health and wellness in the design of spaces and places.
https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.113.32
Volume Editors
Sara Jensen Carr & Rubén García Rubio
ISBN
978-1-944214-48-7
