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Education 1 Building
This building serves as a prototype for a new interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to medical education based upon the same vision for health care. The Medical Education and Research Building has served as a template for an astonishing number of new facilities across the United States that are following this approach to education and healthcare. As the first building in the new education zone of the Anschutz Medical Campus, the design was born from the principle of collaboration – students from various programs (such as medicine, nursing, pharmacy, graduate research, physical therapy) work together as a team to diagnose and treat patients, and the architecture blends the various academic departments seamlessly throughout the complex. A variety of types of spaces compose the building: modular/flexible wet labs, computational labs, 3D visualization environments, lecture halls, video conferencing, and interdisciplinary research. An emphasis was placed on informal spaces for study and group work both inside and outside the building. The student communities, which have a prominent focus as a series of two-story spaces in the building, are shared by multiple disciplines with a common focus.The facility also addresses the constantly changing world of medical education by relying upon the use of simulation environments for everything from basic diagnosis to emergency medicine, student-patient ethics to anatomy. The architecture reinforces the hospital and clinic atmosphere through these simulations enabling students to “practice” in environments identical in layout and appearance to that of the practitioner. The east side of the building faces a park-like quad and is composed of semi-private yards. These are accessed from the student communities within and act as both a buffer and connection between the interior environment and the world outside.
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