Cross pollination
Carolyn Quist and I had dinner recently with a good friend of mine, Christen Soares, a LEED certified architect, who works for the reputable architecture firm Field Paoli, in San Francisco. While Field Paoli’s practice focuses on commercial and residential spaces, our after dinner conversation turned to the work that The Center does and a broader discussion of how evidence-based design could be used to inform all design projects.
Christen was excited by the idea of Field Paoli introducing more rigor into their design process and being able to make a strong business case for using certain design principles in their retail and commercial projects.
This was music to our ears.
Our practice at CHD focuses on healthcare and long-term care, yet we are very much aware that how the built environments affects us is not limited to the places we go when we are in need of care. We’re affected when we shop, eat out, work and hang out at home too.
As CHD staff members we don’t leave our work at the office at the end of the day or the week - we’re passionate and thinking about this everywhere we go, even on a Saturday evening over good food and wine.