Glacier Care Clinic

PROJECT OVERVIEW

The Glacier Care Clinic is a primary care clinic in Browning, Montana, United States that centers people in the local community through the connection with nature’s organic and transformative properties to achieve care and healing. To emphasize this, the clinic’s architecture explores the concept of organic clusters that were inspired by Paternoster Lakes or lakes formed from the melting of glaciers.

This parameters for this project were established by the 2026 IIDA Student Design Competition.

SPECIFICATIONS

CONCEPT

Organic Clusters

Through the concept of organic clusters, inspired by Glacier National Park’s (Montana) Paternoster lakes, lakes that are formed through the melting of glaciers, the space emphasizes nature’s transformative properties that through the history of our world have achieved care and healing. The concept is primarily expressed through spatial organization on the clinic’s floorplan, as well as through the incorporation of biophilic elements in all spaces to maximize the stress-coping properties of nature.