FEATURED PROJECT:
Leon County Health Center – Southside
Designed and built under the direction of
the Florida Department of Health for the Leon County Health
Department, the Southside Health Clinic consolidates several
community services under one roof, in a part of Tallahassee
undergoing significant redevelopment. In addition to a health
clinic, the building houses Social Services offices and facilities
for the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program, including
a large classroom. Off the central waiting room is a 3,000
square foot multi-purpose room for Health Department and community
use, intended as a “home” for the Tallahassee Boys’ Choir.
Of equal concern in the design were the security of the building
and its forty-person staff, as well as the convenience, comfort
and dignity of its clients. Economically constructed of load-bearing
masonry with a steel-framed roof, the single-story building
is sensitive to the single-family residential character of
the emerging neighborhood around it.
