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and Jocelyn Stroupe, principal and director of
healthcare interiors at CannonDesign, share
how some of the jury's favorite design elements
were achieved.

A B OV E :

Making history
Jurors applauded the design of Centre hospitalier de
l'Université de Montréal that pushes new boundaries
as it preserves the past By Jennifer Kovacs Silvis

IT'S NO SMALL feat to build a 3.5 million-square-foot hospital and even
more difficult to get it right. But the team behind Centre hospitalier
de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM) managed to do just that. With
Phase 1 completed in September 2017, the $2 billion project offers patients
and residents of Montreal a facility that doesn't just deliver healthcare
services. It also brings revitalization to a community in need of urban
renewal and a bold public arts program that goes well beyond the expected.
The initial goal for the massive project was to consolidate three longoutdated institutions (one built in 1861 and two in the 1920s) into a single
academic medical center. In order to provide services as soon as possible,
the team spent 1.5 years developing and refining a concept that allowed this
first phase to open with 85 percent of the program completed.
To achieve a project of this scale required massive collaboration between
the design team, client, and other stakeholders, with one round of user
group meetings alone resulting in 33,000 man-hours and a 7,000-page report. Additionally, extensive research was conducted to ensure repetitive
aspects of the massive project, such as its 772 patient rooms, were finetuned and then repeated across the facility via "exemplar" models, providing significant time and costs savings.
And through it all, the team worked to preserve artifacts located on the
historic building site-for example, integrating a church steeple into a corner of the hospital and using two façades from an old house as main interior walls. Additionally, that extensive arts program (Quebec law dictates
1 percent of a project budget be spent on public art) was executed through
13 large-scale works of art, creating a museum-like destination for patients as well as the greater community.
The project was submitted by CannonDesign and NEUF Architect(e)s.
Here, lead designers Azad Chichmanian, partner and architect at NEUF,

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In total,
the CHUM offers 13
large-scale pieces of
art, including "La vie
en montagne" by Collectif Doyon-Rivest,
a digital printing on
glass that's integrated
on the curtain wall.
From afar, the piece
represents five distinct
mountain peaks and
from inside, building users see the
mosaic of words that
constitute the peaks.
B E L OW: The CHUM
includes a number
of publicly accessible rooftop gardens
designed in the
shapes of medicinal
herbs. The gardens
are located between
the building's towers
to reduce heat-island
effect.

How were you able to use design to break
down the massive facility into a more human scale?
Stroupe: The overall building form is organized
around the separation of the high-acuity inpatient environment from the high-volume ambulatory traffic and medical offices, which helps
break down the scale.The three sections of the
building come together to create an approachable and inviting entry plaza that, as part of the
upcoming Phase 2, will contain an auditorium
with a sculptural design that also lends a more
human scale. We also connected all clinical functions with a public concourse that relates back to

© ADRIEN WILLIAMS

AWA R D O F M E R I T

Healthcare Design: What had to be done to
deliver a project this large that's also operationally efficient?
Jocelyn Stroupe: Our team focused quite a bit
on the best way to execute the program in an efficient manner. Since this was a public-private
partnership project, we had already been given
a "solution," yet our team recognized that there
was a better way to organize the building and
program in order to successfully accelerate the
first phase. This led to our recommendation to
separate all service and support departments,
such as pharmacy and laboratories, into a diagnostics building located across the street from
the hospital. The diagnostic building is connected by an elevated pedestrian bridge-the passerelle -as well as below ground. We also separated
all office functions into an adjacent but separate
building, which allowed us the freedom to plan
for a tower that housed inpatient units with a
diagnostic base and an outpatient building to
house clinics.

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Healthcare Design - August 2018
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Editorial
Show Talk
Making the Grade
Cityscene Goes to the Windy City
Surgical Assessment
Crisis Mode
Selling Point
Scouting Report
Project Delivery
Research
Product Spotlight
Welcome
2018 Design Showcase Jury/award Winners and Finalists
Award of Merit: Can-Do Spirit
Award of Merit: Ris Ing to the Top
Award of Merit: Good Neighbor
Award of Merit: Making History
Honorable Mention: Creative Expression
Honorable Mention: Campus Upgrade
Honorable Mention: Campus Upgrade
Honorable Mention: Garden Delight
Honorable Mention: Mission Control
High Points
The Center
Project Directory
Healthcare Design Showcase
Face Time
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