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SAMUELI INSTITUTE

Alexandria, VA

Design: M Group

The mission of the Samueli Institute is to transform health care through the scientific exploration of healing. As a non-profit service organization, the Institute acts as a catalyst in creating discoveries, developing relationships, instigating research, and building rigorous scientific exploration that results in shared knowledge, improved patient care and healthful living.

Over the next five years, it is its goal to build scientific tools to better understand and apply a healing model in medicine. It envisions a model that brings together ancient healing traditions and modern medicine through rigorous scientific research. The Institute seeks answers to the most important questions facing health care today. The Samueli Institute has funded more than 90 scientific projects, published 140 peer-reviewed articles and nine books, and supported 14 conferences. The Institute has also begun a collaboration with the Armed Forces to introduce alternative healing practices for returning veterans of the Iraq war.

Feng Shui criteria was used to evaluate the site and to propose optimal layout criteria for architectural and interior design. Individual spaces were also evaluated for personal and institutional efficiency, productivity and comfort. Because of the nature of this organization, its space was also evaluated and prepared for its role in healing and wellness.