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HEN THE BUILDING 52 medical ward opened
in the 1930s on the campus of Walter Reed
Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.,
the multistory building featured open-air
sleeping porches for Army personnel suffering
from tuberculosis. (Fresh air and sunshine
were widely prescribed ways to help rid
the body of the infectious disease affecting
the lungs.) As new treatments evolved in the aftermath of World War II,
such spaces were no longer needed, and by the 1960s the facility's openair
wards had been walled over and the facility was being used as an outpatient
clinic for Army soldiers.
When the Reed complex merged into the National Naval Medical Center
in Bethesda, Md., in 2011, the facility was closed and the building sat
vacant. Five years later, Children's National Hospital in Washington,
D.C., acquired the structure along with two neighboring buildings and
a parking garage for development into a new clinic and research and innovation
center, part of an ongoing effort to establish satellite clinics
around D.C.
Renamed Children's National Shepherd Park, after its surrounding
neighborhood, the new 24-exam room pediatric clinic on the top two
floors of the former medical ward is the organization's 15th such branch.
" By transferring medical staff from our main hospital to the clinic we
can provide much more convenient access to care for more than 20,000
children living in that part of the District, " says Charles Weinstein, executive
vice president and chief real estate/facilities officer at Children's
National Hospital.
Overseeing the update to the former clinic were Array Architects
(Conshohocken, Pa.) and Elkus Manfredi Architects (Boston). The
changes included refreshing the entry zone with colorful furniture in a
variety of configurations and adding colored accent walls and an asymmetrical
floor pattern in the clinic's main corridor to aid wayfinding.
The building's rectangular layout lent itself to a linear flow of patient
care with an onstage/offstage configuration that places exam rooms in
the core, surrounded by a U-shaped corridor for provider workspaces.
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ABOVE: Architects updated
the sleeping porches
previously used in the
treatment of tuberculosis
with a curtain wall and
glazed glass to create a
new workspace for the
clinic staff. BELOW: The
exposed brick from the
original building was
sealed with an ecofriendly
matte finish so
that no particulate matter
is released.
" The layout gives patients and their families
a measure of privacy, and also gives the staff
immediate access to areas for workstations
and for private consultations with other staff
members, " says Irene Thompson, executive
director of real estate and capital planning at
Children's National Hospital.
To create an optimal work environment and
to help boost staff morale, the design team
sought to maximize natural light in the perimeter
corridor by removing the concrete used to
wall over the sleeping porches and installing
a curtain wall incorporating glazed glass. Because
the building was placed on the National
Register of Historic Places in 2015, the exterior
updates had to reflect its original appearance,
says Clairanne Pesce, a senior interior designer
at Array (Washington, D.C.). " As a result, the
brick, window frames, and painted surfaces we
used on the new curtain wall and elsewhere on
the building matched those seen in historical
photos of the building as closely as possible. "
-Matthew Hall, contributing writer
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