How to Help People Through Their Best (Or Worst) Day: Rec Design for Wellbeing

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Holistic health centers that offer both recreation and mental health services may seem to create contending paths into one building. An architect with three decades of sports and athletics design experience, Sal Canciello of S3 Design, thinks of it like this: 

“One way that a client described it was that you have people who were having the best day of their life in the building, breaking a personal record on a weight-lifting machine. And then you have somebody coming who’s having the worst day of their life. How do you put those two things in the same building and then have people be comfortable?”

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