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Photo credit: Focal Point

Photo credit: Maria Monteagudo, JGMA
spaces, and a paved vehicular lot. Community interaction is first and
foremost in the new building, and the ground floor has been designed
to liberate the typical definitions of interior and exterior.

Blurring the lines between public plaza and lobby and site, the
colourful plaza serves to both attract the community and orient
visitors to and through their ultimate destinations. This flowing, open
lobby plan, at the most predominant corner of the site, will become
the central and vibrant hub of the facility. dw
Technical Sheet
• Official Project Name: Esperanza Health Center
• Location: 4700 S California Ave, Chicago, IL 60632
• Client: Esperanza Health Center
• Architects/designers: JGMA
• Project Design Principal: Juan Gabriel Moreno
• Project Manager: Dan Spore
• Collaborators:
• Civil Engineering – TERRA Engineering
• Landscape Architecture – Site Design Group
• MEP – Syska Hennessy Group
• Structural Engineering – Forefront Structural Engineers
• General Contractor – Skender
• Project sector: Healthcare
• Project completion date: 2019
• Project Square Footage: 26,000 sf
• Photography credits: Maria Monteagudo, JGMA | Focal Point

www.jgma.com/jgma-projects/esperanza-heather-center

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