Heart
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Product • By Davide Groppi srl • RAIL
RAIL
Davide Groppi, 2019
ABS - Metal
Wall lampLighting a space in the simplest way possible, with a sense of irony and weightlessness. The tracks of an electric train can be used to indicate an imaginary landscape in which light creates other directions, other crossings, other shapes. Rail is the boundary between usefulness and show, between art and design. More
Heart and Vascular Institute, WVU Medicine
In our healthcare practice, a new design vision must often accommodate preexisting structures, adapting an existing footprint to meet the changing needs and delivery modalities of evolving patient care. In our work with West Virginia University, HED was challenged to reimagine an in-process build, transforming a recent tower addition from planned children’s hospital to a world-class academic, research and surgical heart and vascular institute.
At the time HED joined the project, many of the building’s key elements—including the inner core, shell, column spacing, floor-to-ceiling height, load-bearing capacity and utility distribution—were already in place; however, the necessary conditions for critical cardiac care modalities—like operati... More