Provide a dedicated arts and culture venue
Rationale: Engaging with visual, musical and other arts when visiting cultural venues is associated with lower risks of cardiovascular disease and mortality and has beneficial effects on components of mental health such as pain, anxiety, and mood for all age groups.
For the most accurate strategy and documentation requirements, please refer to the digital scorecard made available on the Fitwel Platform.
Requirements
Requirement Guidance: For buildings with multiple entrances, identify a main building entrance that is used to access a common area within the building such as a lobby, reception area, or main circulation pathway. |
Demonstrate compliance with the below:
Arts and Culture Venue (Full Credit):
To achieve full credit, demonstrate compliance with all of the following requirements:
- Include an arts and culture venue that is located within the site or within a 1/2-mile or 800-meter walking distance of the site entrance.
Qualifying arts and culture venues may include but are not limited to the following:
- art galleries
- art centers
- publicly accessible artist cooperatives
- music halls
- music centers
- performing arts centers
- outdoor performance venue with dedicated infrastructure (such as a bandshell or amphitheater).
- Confirm that the venue includes programming a minimum of once a month.
- Confirm that the venue offers a minimum of one free event per month.
- Ensure that the venue is accessible to all occupants within the project as well as the general public.
Compliance Documentation
Design Pathway
One document type may be used to demonstrate compliance with more than one requirement and documentation may be uploaded separately or as one file.
Provide the below to demonstrate compliance with each requirement:
Requirement 1
- Upload an annotated plan showing one of the following:
– the distance between the site entrance and the art and culture venue
– the location of the art and culture venue within the site.
Requirement 2
- Upload one of the following:
– for existing venues, a schedule showing the last three months of programming
– for proposed venues, a draft schedule showing the proposed monthly programming.
Requirement 3
- Checkbox to certify that the venue will offer one free event per month
Requirement 4
- Checkbox to certify that the venue will be accessible to all occupants within the project as well as the general public.
Built Pathway
One document type may be used to demonstrate compliance with more than one requirement and documentation may be uploaded separately or as one file.
Provide the below to demonstrate compliance with each requirement:
Requirement 1
- Upload an annotated plan showing one of the following:
– the distance between the site entrance and the art and culture venue
– the location of the art and culture venue within the site.
Requirement 2
- Upload a schedule showing the last three months of programming at the identified venue.
Requirement 3
- Checkbox to certify that the venue offers one free event per month
Requirement 4
- Checkbox to certify that the venue is accessible to all occupants within the project as well as the general public.
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