Perkins Eastman Earns Honorable Mention for a Stunning Display of Design Strategy

In this year’s Healthcare Design Showcase, Perkins Eastman earned an honorable mention for a stunning display of design strategy. Featuring other designers’ projects is important to me because it shows that we are all in this together. In the industry there are many environmental factors that play a role in interior design and construction. In this case, it is a lot size of 100 feet by 150 feet. Perkins Eastman exemplifies creative design strategy that works by turning the small footprint into a 179,000 square-foot surgery center in New York.

Vertical Rather than Horizontal

Perkins Eastman designed a new ambulatory surgery center for  Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, in New York. The tight urban location required the design to fit a 100-by-115 foot area. In order to accomplish that, the design team had to rethink traditional planning strategies and go vertical rather than horizontal.

Stacked Accommodations

The new Josie Robertson Surgery Center houses vertically stacked operating rooms on three floors with care areas specifically designed for specialty procedures. A post-anesthesia care unit, often abbreviated PACU, a short-stay area, family waiting space, pre-op, and a business center are located on other floors and overlook a rooftop terrace.

Arrangement Benefits

The stacked arrangement has many benefits. It allows ample perimeter views and natural light inside the patient rooms and surgical support areas, including labs and staff lockers. A veiled exterior features low-emissivity glazing featuring a white ceramic pattern that’s opaque in some areas to provide privacy and translucent in others to best showcase the views.

Read more about the building variances and the design regulations Perkins Eastman designed around. 

Sources: 2016 Healthcare Design Showcase & HealthcareDesignMagazine.com

Photo Credits: Chris Cooper Courtesy Perkins Eastman