{"id":230984,"date":"2024-06-18T10:34:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T14:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=id_project&p=230984"},"modified":"2025-01-22T16:15:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T21:15:37","slug":"ohana-center-for-child-and-adolescent-behavorial-health-by-nbbj","status":"publish","type":"id_project","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/ohana-center-for-child-and-adolescent-behavorial-health-by-nbbj\/","title":{"rendered":"This Youth Mental-Health Campus is Designed to Heal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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June 18, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Stephen Treffinger<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

This Youth Mental-Health Campus is Designed to Heal<\/h1>\n\n\n

Named after the Hawaiian word for family<\/em>, the Ohana Center for Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health, a youth mental-health campus, centers on the principle of caring\u2014not just for patients but also their support networks. (Staff turnover in the psychiatric health sector is close to 40 percent.) To assist the mission, NBBJ<\/a> turned to the power of nature and beauty, which is abundant in Monterey, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe took the traditional institutional box that defines today\u2019s behavioral-health facilities and bent it around the surrounding oak trees, symbolic of healing the site,\u201d says lead designer Jonathan Ward of the project\u2019s curved single-story volumes, filled with hospitality-style furniture and art chosen to support emotional processing and self-empowerment. The envelope of prefabricated cross-laminated timber embraces patients and visitors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUpon arrival, the exposed timber structures are welcoming,\u201d Ward adds. \u201cWe\u2019re hardwired to react to nature\u2014and to these warm, soft materials.\u201d Floor-to-ceiling views connect the 16-bed residential program and out-patient clinic to the landscape, where winding garden paths lead to a fitness center, scented by the nearby Pacific Ocean and such fragrant plants as sagebrush and immunity-boosting lavender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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