Lu’s Pharmacy

In collaboration with Vancouver Women’s Health Collective and UBC SALA Outreach By Design.

Vancouver, British Columbia | Completed 2009

Women living and working in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside face many difficulties - one of the biggest is the access to health care. With the creation of LU’s Pharmacy/Vancouver Women’s Health Collective, these women were able to receive the specialized attention, care and support that they need. There were a number of challenges involved in the creation of a new space within the existing building. The first challenge was to overcome the lack of natural lighting throughout the long and narrow space. The second challenge was to create a space that would simultaneously function as a pharmacy, while also providing a women-only space in the back. The program consists of a pharmacy for women, a nurse and doctor’s office, a facility for naturopathic treatment, yoga classes and a new home for the Vancouver’s Women’s Health Collective.

Published in Pharmacies by Chris van Uffelen.

This project was featured in the Vancouver Art Gallery’s 2011 exhibition WE: VANCOUVER - 12 MANIFESTOS FOR THE CITY.

CREDITS

Design: 
Outreach by Design (UBC SALA)

Inge Roecker, AIR studio (formerly ASIR Architekten)

Industrial Design: 
Organelle Design (Vancouver)