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AUTISM CAMPUS AT
THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY

Harris, NY

Site Planning: Dirtworks, NYC

Architecture: Turner Brooks, AIA

The autism campus at the Center for Discovery is a new component of this pediatric facility in Harris, NY, which will service up to 100 autistic children in a residential compound that will include housing, education facilities, equine therapy, and pristine forests. Because of the special needs of this population, planning considerations needed to include specialized parameters for interior design and for the relationship between interior and exterior spaces. Interaction with the pristine natural environment which surrounds this site was considered fundamental to its theurapeutic function.

The feng shui component consisted in an analysis of the site and in diagrammatic recomendations for ideal placement of functions and traffic patterns. This analysis was then interpreted by the site planners and integrated into the Master Planning initiatives for the campus as a whole.