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Maimonides Medical Center Department of Pediatrics
Maimonides Medical Center Department of Pediatrics
Brooklyn, New York, NY, United States
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Maimonides Medical Center Department of Pediatrics
Brooklyn, New York, NY, United States
VAMOS Architects has completed the construction of a new 8,500 square foot pediatrics facility for Maimonides Medical Center.
Inspired by the simple idea that design can emerge from the operational challenges of a space and its program, the new facility is laid out to provide an efficient flow for the doctors, staff, and patients who are treated at this high-volume practice. The striking design seeks to create a bright, clear, and immediately positive first impression for patients and their families as they enter the space. The design balances the hospital’s rigorous operational and material requirements with a bold visual impact to highlight the places where children and their families spend the most time: the waiting areas.
These public waiting and circulation spaces are located in the sunny double-height perimeter areas while the exam rooms, storage, labs, and administrative functions are housed in a highly efficient object at the center of the space. The corners of the central core are rounded to better accommodate the busy flow of patients, doctors, and staff. In this facility, the doctors move from room to room efficiently treating patients, so VAMOS’ design takes great care to create identical layouts for all the exam rooms. This feature helps to provide the physicians with an intuitive and immediately familiar environment to administer treatment and gives the doctors and staff the ability to better serve the 200 patients and their families who move through the facility daily.
The pediatric hospital's "under the sea" theme is reinterpreted here through VAMOS’ use of highly textured and tactile materials, dramatic scale, and high-contrast aquatic graphics to evoke the sense of an immersive underwater experience. The upper surface of the blue object is encrusted with an array of acoustical tiles covered in perforated vinyl specifically designed to reduce the high noise levels in the lobby. Pendant lights are bundled together to create clusters of barnacle-like chandeliers. Large schools of fish, whales, divers, and jellyfish encircle the perimeter spaces and the bright-green wall base gives young patients a fun way-finding device to follow around the entire central object as they move from the waiting area, to the exam rooms, and back out to the main open space.
VAMOS provided a consistent eye-level strip of white tack board that encircles the central space to act as a strong organizing element to control the ever-changing notices and information that inevitably clutter the walls of medical facilities.
The layout of the space, the choreography of the patient experience and flow, and the design of the various tactile surfaces all encourage engagement, curiosity, and active participation in a space where patients and their families are often in an emotionally-charged state of mind.
The facility includes 12 pediatric exam rooms, 3 triage areas, 2 labs, a reception and follow-up staff core, a business call center, and staff offices.
Photography by Chris Payne
Inspired by the simple idea that design can emerge from the operational challenges of a space and its program, the new facility is laid out to provide an efficient flow for the doctors, staff, and patients who are treated at this high-volume practice. The striking design seeks to create a bright, clear, and immediately positive first impression for patients and their families as they enter the space. The design balances the hospital’s rigorous operational and material requirements with a bold visual impact to highlight the places where children and their families spend the most time: the waiting areas.
These public waiting and circulation spaces are located in the sunny double-height perimeter areas while the exam rooms, storage, labs, and administrative functions are housed in a highly efficient object at the center of the space. The corners of the central core are rounded to better accommodate the busy flow of patients, doctors, and staff. In this facility, the doctors move from room to room efficiently treating patients, so VAMOS’ design takes great care to create identical layouts for all the exam rooms. This feature helps to provide the physicians with an intuitive and immediately familiar environment to administer treatment and gives the doctors and staff the ability to better serve the 200 patients and their families who move through the facility daily.
The pediatric hospital's "under the sea" theme is reinterpreted here through VAMOS’ use of highly textured and tactile materials, dramatic scale, and high-contrast aquatic graphics to evoke the sense of an immersive underwater experience. The upper surface of the blue object is encrusted with an array of acoustical tiles covered in perforated vinyl specifically designed to reduce the high noise levels in the lobby. Pendant lights are bundled together to create clusters of barnacle-like chandeliers. Large schools of fish, whales, divers, and jellyfish encircle the perimeter spaces and the bright-green wall base gives young patients a fun way-finding device to follow around the entire central object as they move from the waiting area, to the exam rooms, and back out to the main open space.
VAMOS provided a consistent eye-level strip of white tack board that encircles the central space to act as a strong organizing element to control the ever-changing notices and information that inevitably clutter the walls of medical facilities.
The layout of the space, the choreography of the patient experience and flow, and the design of the various tactile surfaces all encourage engagement, curiosity, and active participation in a space where patients and their families are often in an emotionally-charged state of mind.
The facility includes 12 pediatric exam rooms, 3 triage areas, 2 labs, a reception and follow-up staff core, a business call center, and staff offices.
Photography by Chris Payne
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