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We need new paradigms in mental healthcare spaces. A California youth centre leads the way

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Leveraging design, nature and art for healing, Montage Health Ohana Campus is a behavioural health centre for youth in Monterey, California, that aims to go beyond traditional clinical care. - Ty Cole/OTTO
Nestled in a hillside landscape in Monterey, the Montage Health Ohana Campus looks at care and the environment as one, designed not only to provide children and adolescents with a healing environment but promote wellbeing in families, clinicians and health caregivers as well. - Ty Cole/OTTO
Conceived by American firm NBBJ, and informed by neuroscience research from its in-house fellow Dr John Medina, the 5,165-sq-m centre generates a garden-like atmosphere, with 94 per cent of the interior opening up to direct views of the outdoors. - Sean Airhart

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Designer, Architect
Neuroscience Research
Funding Support
Roberta (Bertie) Bialek Elliott
Floor Area
5,165 sq-m

Leveraging design, nature and art for healing, Montage Health Ohana Campus is a behavioural health centre for youth in Monterey, California, that aims to go beyond traditional clinical care.

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