AUTOMATED & FLEXIBLE EXTENDED CARE FACILITY Owner: Location: New York City, NY Completion Year: 1968

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This design by C. Allen Mullins was a 1968 first semester graduate school project in collaboration with two other students, Mr. Terry L. Patterson and Mr. Patel. The design professor was William Bregar. It was a time when architects and the building industry were directing their thinking towards factory-manufactured buildings. In this project, the program requirements were that extended care units could be plugged into a core as well as creating an idea of "automatic". When computers were still big machines only pumping out punch cards, it was hard to think that as a student, a building could be flexible. The idea that the building or the plug-in units were automatic was never a very realistic consideration. Of course, 35 years later the word "automatic" might be replaced with "smart" and the designer today could have a more realistic chance that many parts or functions of the building can truly be "automatic".