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Project • By EGM architects • Hospitals
Drive-In OR Complex
EGM architects has completed a new, innovative complex of operating rooms on the roof of the visitor car park at the Reinier de Graaf Hospital in Delft. The unique drive-in complex offers rapid, easily accessible and welcoming care services. The complex responds to the growing demand for high-quality outpatient facilities in Dutch hospitals.
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Unique concept
With the design of this drive-in operating room complex (OR), EGM has realized a concept that provides care in a new way. Everything is geared to getting patients back on their feet and giving them full control. Built directly on top of the existing visitor car park, the complex lets patients drive right into the operating room, so to speak. And, after their t... More
Project • By Metcalfe Architecture & Design • Hospitals
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Buerger Center
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia looked to Metcalfe to design innovative and playful interactive experiences within the new Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care.
Metcalfe brought the idea of “Children in Motion” to life through environmental graphics, including over two hundred larger-than-life photographs placed in elevator lobbies, at check-in desks, and in exam rooms.
The graphics are visually appealing, provide essential wayfinding assistance, and enhance comfort and healing — purposefully distracting from intimidating exam room machinery. Each exam room identifier contains a unique photograph to help parents find their child. Exam rooms were renumbered to improve patient flow.
Interactive pieces scattered througho... More