Powell, Ohio
BeAligned Health
A chiropractic office expansion in Powell, Ohio, where BeAligned Health doubled its space and a full-scale tape layout tested the rooms before construction.
2025 AIA Ohio People's Choice Awards · 3rd place
The project
BeAligned Health outgrew its 2,000-square-foot office in Powell. The expansion joined two separate offices into one clinic, roughly doubling the space and organizing consultation, treatment, education and rehabilitation along one clear path.
Two offices joined into one practice
The practice needed more than extra square footage. Its old space no longer matched how clients and practitioners moved through a visit, and the new footprint began as two separate office suites, and the work was a full gut renovation. The design had to turn the suites into one clinic with consultation rooms, larger adjusting bays, an education space and a rehabilitation area, without giving the office a sterile, institutional feel.
The practice needed a clearer path through the day.
The plan was tested on the floor before it was built.
Testing the plan with tape and cutouts
Before the plan was finalized, the team laid it out at full scale inside the space, using tape on the floor and construction-paper cutouts, and walked it. Circulation and the size of the rooms used every day could be judged by body rather than by drawing.
The test changed the plan. The adjusting bays grew from 8 by 8 feet to 9 by 8 feet before construction. That extra foot gives practitioners room to move around the table and its equipment, and the team found it on the floor, not after the walls went up.
One path through a patient visit
Consultation rooms, adjusting bays, the education space and rehabilitation areas line up along a single coordinated route through the larger footprint.
Storage is built into the plan. A sliding storage unit conceals supplements while keeping the main area visually open, and illuminated rolling shelves keep supplies within reach. Eight-foot Simpatico sliding doors on quiet tracks add scale without adding noise.
Lighting that separates treatment from waiting
Danette, the interior design lead, used color temperature and material undertones to tell treatment rooms apart from waiting and presentation areas. Adjusting bays pair natural tones and live plants with 4,000 Kelvin uplighting from Cooper Lighting. Waiting and presentation areas use warmer 3,200 Kelvin baffled downlights that cut glare.
Live-edge wood slabs from Penwood Manufacturing, earth-toned walls and custom millwork soften the harder surfaces a clinic needs. To keep paint, lighting and finishes aligned, Danette checks undertones against a white reference surface in photographs before anything is installed.
Weekly site visits with the design-build team
Arcfluence developed the schematic design with the client and Ron Scott Design Build, which carried the work into construction, and weekly site visits kept Arcfluence, the builder and the MEP team in direct contact. When an existing water shutoff limited a planned wall niche, the team resolved it in the field and the larger plan held. Staying close to the work through construction is how small field conditions stay small.
The project took third place in the 2025 AIA Ohio People's Choice Awards.