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Submitted by: Bettisworth North Architects and Planners Inc. Fairbanks, Alaska
and Jones & Jones Seattle, WA
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A doctor at the Tanana Chiefs
Conference (TCC) Chief Andrew
Isaac Health Center gave this
directive to the design team.
Native Alaska patients travel
sometimes thousands of miles,
from 28 small, remote villages
along the Yukon and Tanana
rivers of Interior Alaska, to receive
medical care at the new clinic.
Bettisworth North's architects
and landscape architects, with
NBBJ, worked closely with
cultural design specialists and
landscape architects at Jones &
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Jones to ensure these patients feel
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The mission began with a

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cultural advisory committee

culture into the architecture and

comprised of Native elders and

landscape architecture. The result

village tribal members. This group

is a sustainably responsible and

gathered during collaborative

culturally driven design.

planning workshops to infuse
an Interior Alaska identity and

Because native peoples are very
connected to their lands, the team
connected the interior spaces
with the natural surroundings to
create a welcoming, familiar, and
comfortable setting for patients,
staff, and visitors.
Key gathering and waiting
spaces were placed along the
exterior south-facing walls to
harvest and balance natural light
and offer a visual connection to
the landscape.
Patients and visitors can
also meander through the site,
which is filled with native plants,
courtesy of nearly one acre of
"tundra mat" blocks. The native
tundra mat was harvested near
Fairbanks, transported to the
site, and set around the clinic. It's
common during autumn to see

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