Rebuilding Lives
Women’s Recovery Center Capital Campaign
A campaign to double service capacity and liberate twice as many women from addiction.
Gallery
Explore the award winning Robert Maschke design for the rebuilding for the Women’s Recovery Center.
The architecture of the new Women’s Recovery Center of Greater Cleveland is born of the organization’s mission to change women’s lives through physical, emotional, and economic empowerment. This transformative ethos forms the backbone of the approach to the project and its site, a neglected and unremarkable single-story commercial building located in a gritty urban neighborhood on Cleveland’s near west side. 
The public space at the heart of the building serves, by turns, as a large conference room, an art gallery, and a fashion runway. The versatility of this main public space is exemplified by a long conference table which doubles as a catwalk, allowing women to model new clothes for their peers and build self-confidence.An ivy-covered metal mesh screen envelops the building, strategically veiling spaces for privacy while maintaining natural light for the interior. 
The existing building is treated with a full height glass curtain wall and permeated by skylights in public spaces. The verdant texture of the ivy animates the fa\u00e7ade while the geometry folds to accommodate and shade entrances. This singular wrapping element extends seamlessly to the edges of the building\u2019s site in a gesture of embrace, welcoming clients to the Women's Center.
Healing Women. Rebuilding Families.
This living building environment embodies healing and recovery.
Our waiting list now averages two to four weeks for women and their families seeking substance use disorder treatment services. Since 2012, more than 100 women each year have lost their battle with prescription drug abuse and opiate addiction and die as a result of an accidental overdose. With a reconfiguration of our building’s interior, we can double our capacity for behavioral health. We can then serve twice as many women and their families while reducing wait times to 48 hours or less.
Did you know?
200,000
200,000 women die per year as result of complications of addiction. That is four times the number of deaths from breast cancer.
41,000
41,000 women in Cuyahoga County are in need of addiction treatment. Nationally, it is estimated that 22 million Americans require some level of alcohol and other drug treatment.