The Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins is one of the leading and largest public health institution in the world. This new building will house three departments to unite the school, connecting via sky bridges to the existing school building to the north.

With 250,000 gross square feet across seven floors, the building will support the school's mission to inspire and educate the next generation of public health leaders through dynamic workspaces, state-of-the-art classrooms, and a variety of spaces for study, collaboration, and events.

The design navigates zoning constraints by stepping up and away from the street to relate in scale to the adjacent residential community, but reaching up to the skyline to create a new landmark in the East Baltimore campus. 

A welcoming entrance connects with the local community, offering views into the heart of the building where a Forum space will provide a flexible and multi-functional central hall and frame a new garden courtyard shared with the adjacent School of Nursing.

Breaking from the conventions of a traditional academic building, the design emphasizes connectivity and collaboration. A series of social, study, and teaching spaces are clustered at the heart of the building and distributed throughout all levels to infuse energy from top to bottom. Around these hubs the departments are arranged in smaller, more human scale ‘neighbourhoods’ of various scales and characters, creating a corridor-free environment. The building is highly modular throughout to allow for long-life loose-fit flexibility.