Redwood City, CA
Stanford Outpatient Center makes use of an existing corporate campus of four buildings, formerly home to a tech company. Through adaptive re-use, the site which houses several of the top outpatient clinics from the main hospital, was transformed to create robust connections back to the main campus as a direct extension of the Stanford quality and brand.
Transformation of the new campus began with landscaping the site to relate to the archetypal Stanford Quad. Interior planning situates all public space facing this quad. Ceilings are raised at the facade to further the indoor-outdoor connection.
A three story enclosed atrium with a drop-off canopy was inserted between the two main clinic buildings, indicating the main entrance. The atrium helps unify the campus, creates a connection back to nature, enables clear wayfinding and conveys competence from the front door: “We will take care of you.”
The material palette reinforces a connection to nature through the use of elemental materials such as stone, wood, and glass as the base palette. Layering of color is used to aid in wayfinding.
Contract Magazine Healthcare Environments Award, 2009
Modern Healthcare Design Award, Honorable Mention, 2009
New York, NY
The HDR New York City Design Studio, located in the Garment District, had a goal to create a communal workspace for their employees, as collaboration is the heart of their work. Their inspiration, to incorporate a unified design to reflect the history of the neighborhood. The concept, a catwalk-style functional space from the reception area with continous countertops through the center of the office, creating a broad context of workable space. The area needed to be appealing for both casual or formal gatherings. This is the organizing spine that holds together the various components of the office, from reception to display areas to communal workspace.
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
The interior design for King Saud Medical City promotes a consistent theme of patient care and service; taking cues from the hospitality model to provide a luxurious and modern healing environment that visually reinforces the state-of-the-art services offered here. With an emphasis on the region, nature, and culture, finish materials include warm woods and soft, clean color palettes to put the patient and their families at ease. The interior is designed for modularity, flexibility and efficiency; clear concise way-finding; privacy; and, most importantly, for patient-centered healthcare delivery that respects local culture. Interior environments are thoughtfully designed to deinstitutionalize the patient experience and to first and foremost support the patient. The design balances the need for a calming, healing environment and a facility organized to provide integrated, multi-disciplinary healthcare delivery to serve the community and the region.
The King Saud Medical City Healthcare experience can be summarized in the following values established at the beginning of the project:
-Focus on hospitality
-Durable, economical and high-quality materials
-Promote visual and acoustic privacy
-Base on sustainable design principles
-Reinforce identity, image and branding
-Respond appropriately to culture of the region
-Create patient, client and staff-centered spaces
-Incorporate evidence-based design findings for a calming, therapeutic environment
-Enhance patients’ and their families’ experiences with spaces designed and dedicated to their comfort
The overall design concept derives from the environment of the site and the context of the city of Riyadh. The Public Lobby is designed for the comfort and well-being of patients and their families, with reception areas fitted out with comfortable seating arrangements to accommodate a variety of groups, and a parallel public “mall” complete with retail and dining. Centrally located gender-separated prayer rooms are also provided adjacent to waiting areas. First and second level public circulation areas include screened waiting zones overlooking the Lobby, offering a place of respite with a view to the activity below. Views to the exterior beyond create a soothing environment and help orient visitors. The Lobby serves as the front door to KSMC and provides a place of community, positive distractions, and connections to the outdoors.
The material and formal qualities of the Lobby and main public waiting areas set the tone throughout. Clean lines and form, along with attention to detail and the quality of materials promote hospitality; from the public front door to the patient’s bed. The material palette – evocative of the local environment – provides color, texture, light, and a hierarchy of form. Repeated elements, such as screened backdrops at reception desks, identify entrances and destinations through their consistent, recognizable design vocabulary. Screens, patterned with Islamic geometry, break down scale and create depth. Integrated into the interior architecture, they become way-finding elements to denote places of respite and privacy. A clear hierarchy of desk types serves as a guide to the journey from the first point of entry at the main reception, to departmental waiting, and to nurses’ stations. A consistent family of design elements and a clear, thematic approach to material, scale, repetition and form helps to create recognizable landmarks and intuitive way-finding.
Central to the design is sensitivity to the culture of the region, beginning with an understanding of the importance of family. Family comfort is integral to the design, with generous spaces for family to gather within public areas as well as spaces to accommodate family members within patient rooms. Patient rooms are divided into staff, patient and family zones with an area of respite provided at the window wall. Families are encouraged to participate in the healing process, which is shown to improve patient outcomes. Locating patient room toilets outboard and limiting views to patient and treatment spaces responds to patients’ and families’ need for privacy, as well as the general modesty of the culture. Screened areas are integrated into circulation and waiting areas in order to provide gender separation and privacy.
The interior environment at KSMC incorporates sustainability and healthcare design best practices, promoting wellness and integrating evidence-based design paradigms. The rich and varied palette of wood, stone and glass combined with elements from the local vernacular create a welcoming, healing environment and blur the lines between hospital and hospitality. Ample space is provided to accommodate families throughout the healing process, helping improve safety and outcomes. Cultural awareness and sensitivity influences all aspects of the design process. Evidenced-based design is aligned with cultural values to create space that resonates with patients, families and healthcare providers. The interior is designed as a comforting, safe harbor for the community it serves.
Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
The King Faisal Medical City will consist of1,350 beds in a general hospital and five specialty hospitals (cardiology, neurology, oncology, rehabilitation and ophthalmology), as well as retail outlets, a hotel, a mosque and housing.
The overall design concept derives from the natural environment of the site and the context of the Asir region, with the building site nestled in a “wadi” (valley) with solid-stone sides protecting a “waha” (oasis) containing public areas, and the patient tower “jebel” (mountain) above. These three elements from the surrounding environment provide the basis for the wayfinding colors used to distinguish different zones of the hospital.
Entrances to the facility are designed to begin at drop-off. Canopies based on the eight-sided star from Islamic geometry penetrate the exterior wall into the interior of the buildings, folding down to the floor to become the backdrop for reception areas; creating intuitive wayfinding for patients and visitors. The first level is designed for the comfort and well-being of patients and their families, with reception areas fitted out with comfortable seating arrangements to accommodate a variety of groups, and a parallel public “mall” complete with retail kiosks and dining. Centrally located gender-separated prayer rooms are also provided adjacent to waiting areas. The second level public circulation includes screened balconies overlooking the gallery. These balconies offer a place of respite with a view to the activity below, evocative of the Shanasheel in traditional Islamic architecture. Views to the desert and mountains beyond create a soothing environment and help orient visitors. The gallery serves as the front door to KFMC and provides a place of community, positive distractions, and connections to the outdoors.
The material and formal qualities of the gallery and main public waiting areas set the tone throughout. Clean lines and form, along with attention to detail and the quality of materials promote hospitality; from the public front door to the patient’s bed. The material palette – evocative of the local environment – provides color, texture, light, and a hierarchy of form. Repeated elements, such as the legible geometry of the folded planes of the drop-off canopies, identify entrances and destinations through their consistent, recognizable design vocabulary. Screens, patterned with Islamic geometry, break down scale and create depth. Integrated into the interior architecture, they become way-finding elements to denote places of respite and privacy. A clear hierarchy of desk types serves as a guide to the journey through the facility from drop-off, to departmental check-in, and to nurses’ stations. A consistent family of design elements and a clear, thematic approach to material, scale, repetition and form helps to create recognizable landmarks and intuitive way-finding.
Abu Dhabi, UAE
A 2,300,000 SF/ 213,680 m2 hospital offering advanced medical technologies, high-performance facility design and providing world-class quality of care, with 7-star hospitality design. A village concept theme reinforces the Cleveland Clinic's desire to establish a new sense of community in the region.
An extension of US-based Cleveland Clinic’s model of care, CCAD provides direct access to some of the world’s best healthcare providers (more than 5,500 doctors applied for 175 positions). The facility houses five centers of excellence—Heart & Vascular, Neurological, Digestive Disease, Respiratory and Critical Care, and Emergency Medicine—as well as more than 30 complex and critical care specialties.
Abu Dhabi, UAE
LEED Gold-certified 333,600 SF / 30,900 m2, 75-bed facility addresses a significant demand for specialist medical treatment in the region and provides multi-disciplinary health care services consisting of three centers, a spine center, knee and sports medicine center, wellness center and a diagnostic center, all in a unified building.
Interiors reinforce a consistent theme of patient care and service, taking cues from hospitality design to provide a luxurious and modern healing environment that visually reinforces the state of the art services provided within. Interior circulation was designed to end in daylight and exterior views, and to further connect with the surrounding context and reinforce consistent wayfinding concepts. Material and color palates were designed with a garden and water theme with the use of warm woods and soft, clean palettes to put the patient and their family at ease. Patient rooms are divided into staff, patient and family zones with an area of respite provided at the window wall to encourage families to stay and encourage participatory whole family healing and improved patient outcomes. Medical gases are hidden by sliding glass panels as part of a custom designed headwall.
Daejeon, Korea
Sun Medical is a 12,500m² Health Screening Center and General Hospital in Daejeon, Korea. A 5-Star Hospitality facility with Full-Time Specialists in 11 Medical Departments including Health Screening, Anti-Aging & Life-Style Management, Skin Care and Cosmetics, Women’s Health , Dentistry, Cancer Center. Nominated as a Leading International Patient Hospital by the Ministry of Health and Welfare in 2011.
