Children’s Hospital and Health Center
San Diego, California
This unique building is specifically designed to help kids get healthy and stay healthy. A new environment of caring was created that reduces anxiety and promotes healing through the purposeful combination of design, color, symbols and art.
The overall theme of the building is the notion of “home.” The building has six pitched roofs, like six houses in a neighborhood, as well as a unique color. The theme of home and neighborhood is continued throughout the interior with residential looking windows, nursing stations designed as houses complete with a courtyard and porch lights, and fiber optic lights that appear as starry constellations.
The new building increase bed space from 154 beds to 220, houses a new pediatric emergency room, doubles the outpatient facilities, allows expansion in other patient-care areas, provides a roof heli-pad and gives the entire hospital a new entrance.
Electrically, a new 12kV service was provided for the entire hospital and a new peak-shave/emergency engine-generator plant was added to the existing co-location plant (previously designed by our firm). Modifications to the existing facility included radiology and nuclear medicine additions, cafeteria remodel, and remodel and additions to numerous laboratories.
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