The Health Factory

Master thesis (2016)

Authors

Contributors

M. Van Gemert (mentor)
S.C. Groenewold (mentor)
Programme
Complex Projects (Architecture and the Built Environment) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2016 Scholten, E.
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Published Date

29-01-2016

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Programme

Complex Projects

Abstract

The Health Factory is a health complex with sports facilities, healthy food options and a medical center that focusses on serving workers in the neighborhood. More than a third of all U.S. residents are obese, and this number has been increasing over the past three decades. Americans eat unhealthy and do not get enough exercise. Although there are many regulatory programs to improve this, like Obamacare or local city initiatives, this is not enough. The numbers keep rising. By embedding a healthy lifestyle in the physical and built environment, we can adress this problem. Architecture should not always comply with the way we behave. Sometimes architecture should improve our behavior.