Oculus - Winter 2012 - (Page 32) ©Courtesy of Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Columbia University ©Courtesy of Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Columbia University feature T wo healthcare buildings planned to rise at opposite ends of Manhattan couldn’t be more different in their use – or more exciting. Columbia University Medical Center’s Medical and Graduate Education Building (MGEB), designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro with Gensler as the executive architect, is a cutting-edge educational and training facility for student physicians and graduate researchers, many of whom are at the start of their careers. Te National Center for Palliative Care Innovation (CPC), designed by FXFOWLE with MHG Architects and Clodagh Design, is for the HealthCare Chaplaincy. It is a first-ofits-kind facility for those facing the end of their lives. What the buildings share are visionary leaders who are promoting vital, new approaches in their respective fields. MGEB: team-based learning MGEB is a quicksilver, 14-story glass tower rising in the uptown medical center’s dense urban campus with an ambitious program that belies its size. Stacked on the building’s north side are technologically advanced classrooms and a medical simulation center that lets students hone their clinical skills on robotic dummies in replications of clinics, operating rooms, and other medical environments. On the south side is the “Study Cascade,” a nine-floor linkage of stairways, outdoor rooms, and study and meeting spaces. Both sides of the building underscore the center’s commitment to new styles of learning. Passersby can read this separation in the building’s skin. A clear glass curtain wall surrounds the cascade and seemingly emerges out of the fritted glass skin covering the northern part of the structure. Te slender tower – its footprint is about 6,000 square feet NEW WORK / NEW APPROACHES Models of Medical Care Visionary approaches to healthcare inspire innovative design of two new Manhattan medical facilities By Richard Staub – rises out of an inward sloping base that will provide a central gathering place. “With most classrooms dispersed among several buildings, the school was lacking a heart,” says Gerard Sullivan, LEED AP, Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s project leader. “Tis building delivers it.” Gathering spaces and stairways unite an open lobby and cafeteria on the ground floor with an auditorium and two floors of classrooms and labs. “Te building also connects to the natural world to provide a welcome break from what can be an intense environment,” says Maddy Burke-Vigeland, AIA, LEED AP, Gensler’s principal-incharge of cultural and educational projects. “Tere is a dramatic terrace on the second floor with views of the Hudson River, and several outdoor rooms are sequenced into the cascade.” Te person who championed the 100,000-square-foot facil- ity’s emphasis on team-based learning is P. Roy Vagelos, M.D., an alumnus who, with his wife, gave $50 million towards the facility. Te former president and CEO of Merck and Co. says the building reflects the growing trend of doctors to work as teams to address a patient’s condition. And according to Sullivan, that approach is supported by the medical center’s chief information officer, Robert V. Sideli, M.D., whose goal is to foster new learning environments. Connectivity is key. 32 Oculus Winter 2012 Designs Fit for Life http://www.naylornetwork.com/arc-nxt/ Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Oculus - Winter 2012 Letters from Two Presidents Shelter from the Storm Center Highlights Urban Farming Takes Root Opener: Design: Where One Small Shift = One Big Change The Big Picture: Designing for Health/Solving for Pattern Active Design: Urban Bones, Human Muscles Aging In Place: There's No Place Like Home Good Neighbors: A Retreat for Healing, and the Iconic O’Toole Retooled New Work/New Approaches: Models of Medical Care Thinking About Architecture 20th-Century World Architecture Material Strategies High Life Ralph Walker: Architect of the Century Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect: Beaux Arts A Visual Inventory The health and welfare of retired sailors was the objective of Snug Harbor, which opened its fi rst Greek Revival building in 1833 Hospital Hopes Alphabetical and Categorical Index Oculus - Winter 2012 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/ARCQ0113 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/ARCQ0412 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/ARCQ0312 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/ARCQ0212 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/ARCQ0112 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/ARCQ0411 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/ARCQ0311 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/ARCQ0211 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/ARCQ0111 http://www.nxtbookMEDIA.com
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