Bridge Homeless Shelter cuts Neighborhood Crime by 18%

This is one of the reasons why I got into to design in the first place, because the way we design does have a direct impact on our surroundings.

The stunning feature of the design was the fact that set really high goals for the project and were able to meet them. The project was built on a remediated Brownfield site, a burnt out and "hazardous" site that was not suitable for human habitation that they cleaned up and made useable, and strove for LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design)ratings on a building typology that is typically undesired visually by any community. "The Bridge proves that shelters should not be isolated, but an integrated part of our community.”
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Architecturally they found a way to integrate a variety of Natural design elements into the building; graywater system, daylighting to reduce energy consumption and green roofs to reduce the amount of heat that a building radiates back into the "Global Warming".