Architects: Perkins + Will
Location: Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Area: 830,000 sqft
Year: 2012
Photographs: James Steinkamp Photography
From the architect. This hospital is part of a campus-wide transformation project, which also includes an orthopedic building, parking structure and new loading and delivery systems. The 800,000-square-foot hospital consists of 386 patient beds along with diagnostic and treatment facilities, such as surgery, radiology and emergency departments. The hospital is sited adjacent to the Eisenhower Expressway (a major arterial feeding the central area of Chicago) on the north, Ashland Avenue on the east and Harrison Street, the major internal street for the Rush Campus, on the south.
The organizational concept consists of a rectangular seven-story base, containing new diagnostic and treatment facilities, topped by a five- story curvilinear bed tower. The base connects to existing diagnostic treatment facilities to create a new continuous interventional
platform. Part of the ground level of this base contains an emergency department, which has been designed to be an advanced emergency response center for the City of Chicago. The geometry of the bed tower maximizes views and natural light for patient rooms while also creating an environment for efficient and safe health care.
The massing and architectural expression of the north, south and east respond to the differing surrounding conditions. The north elevation is simple and large in scale, similiar to the adjacent freeway. The east elevation works in tandem with the orthopedics building to create and reinforce the new entry boulevard from Ashland. The south elevation weaves the rectilinear and curvilinear geometry of base and bed tower together to scale the building down to relate to the environment of the entry boulevard. The difference in north and south elevation also responds to the internal organizations of the base. The simpler north elevation expresses the back of house staff connection corridors. The more layered and scaled down south façade contains the public elements of the base, such as lounges and waiting areas.
At the junction of new and old hospital is a multi-story entry pavilion whose roof is landscaped to provide a patient staff garden at level four that connects by bridge to the existing parking structure and has upper level patient check-in facilities. Skylights act as roof garden sculptural elements and provide natural light for the entry pavilion below. The walls of one of these skylights project down to the floor. Of the entry pavilion to introduce an exterior landscaped space without compromising internal contamination issues associated with plantings.
Team: James Zajac – Market Sector Leader (Principal-in-Charge), Ralph Johnson – Firm Wide Design Principal (Principal Designer), Jerry Johnson – Principal (Principal Designer), Jocelyn Frederick – Market Sector Leader (Principal Planner), Bridget Lesniak – Principal (Project Director), Walter Bissonnette – Associate Principal (Project Director), James Nowak – Associate Principal (Senior Technical Architect), Robert Cohoon – Associate Principal (Senior Interior Architect), Rod Vickroy – Associate Principal (Senior Interior Designer), Brent Hussong – Senior Associate (Sr. Medical Planner), Jason Rosenblatt – Senior Associate (Senior Interior Designer), John Moorhead – Senior Associate (Senior Design Architect), Laura Zimmer – Associate (Sr. Medical Planner), Barbara Burnette – Associate (Senior Interior Designer), Tom Demetrion – Associate (Senior Design Architect), Jeff Saad – Associate (Project Designer), Jack Lesniak – (Senior Technical Architect), Marvina Williams – Associate (Medical Planner), Dennis O’Malley – (Project Manager), Zahra Makki – (Sr. Medical Planner), Patricia Canedo – (Sr. Medical Planner), Jose Valeros (Senior Design Architect), Milan Miladinovich (Project Architect), JB Park – (Project Architect), Justin Aleo – (Project Architect), Michael Tucker (Interior Designer), Carlos Barillas – (Architect III), Sawat Tulyathorn – (Architect III), Nathan Fell – (Architect III), Paul Stovesand – (Architect III), Rebecca Cox – (Architect III), Aaron Manns – (Architect III), Joachim Schuessler – (Architect III), Hugo Prill – (Architect III), Young Sup Park – (Architect II), Matt Booma – (Architect II), Bernard Chung – (Architect II), Gelacio Arias – (Architect II), Scott Blindauer – (Architect II), Crister Cantrell – (Architect II), Daniel Ferrario – (Architect II), Leigh Allen – (Architect II), Jennifer Merchant – (Designer II), Hannah Jefferies – (Designer II), Remiko Kitazawa – (Designer III), Michelle Malecha – (Architect I), Andrew Broderick – (Architect I), Matthew Williams – (Architect I), Michelle Hale Stern – (Architect I)
Interior Designer: Perkins+Will
Cost: $398,000,000
Client: Rush University Medical Center
Mechanical Engineer: Environmental Systems Design (ESD)
Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
Electrical Engineer: Environmental Systems Design (ESD)
Civil Engineer: Terra Engineering
Construction Manager: Power Jacobs Joint Venture
General Contractor: Power Jacobs Joint Venture
Landscape Architect: Hitchcock Design Group // Hoerr Schaudt (Entry Pavilion)
Lighting Designer: HDLC
Consultants: LIGHTING – Aurora Lighting (Entry Pavilion), PARKING – Walker Parking, SUSTAINABILITY (Entry Pavilion)- IBC Engineering Services, TRAFFIC – Kimley Horn, MATERIAL MANAGEMENT – St. Onge, CODE – Schirmer (AON), EQUIPMENT – Walsh, ERTICAL TRANSPORTATION – Vertex Corporation, EXTERIOR WALL – Heitman & Associates, ACOUSTICAL – Cerami Associates, SIGNAGE – fd2s
Adhesives, Coatings And Sealants: 3M Company
Carpet: Interface FLOR, Bentley Prince Street
Ceilings: Armstrong, Ceilings Plus
Curtain Walls: ASI Limited
Exterior Wall Systems : Sobotec Architectural Wall System Solutions
Flooring: Polyflor, Altro
Furniture: Herman Miller Healthcare
Glass: Viracon
Green Roof: LiveRoof, American Hydrotech, Inc.
Insulation: Roxul Inc.
Lighting Control Systems: Lightolier
Lighting: Philips Lighting
Masonry, Concrete And Stone: Chicago Block and Brick Company
Metal: Alucobond, Kalzip
Paints And Finishes: Sherwin-Williams
Pavers: Hanover Architectural Products
Roofing: American Hydrotech, Inc
Seating: Herman Miller Healthcare
Structural Systems (Steel): Nucor-Yamato Steel Co.
Walls: Panolam
Windows And Doors (Exterior Glazing: Viracon
Window Shades: Mechoshade
New Hospital Tower Rush University Medical Center / Perkins + Will originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 04 Nov 2013.
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