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don't feel so overwhelming from the pedestrian
level, with a more slender face extending
toward the neighborhood. The building
is then clad in white terracotta panels, with
a texture at the base inspired by nearby bodies
of water, Lake Erie and the Cuyahoga
River, that results in a subtle wave form
that fades to a flat panel as it extends up
the tower.
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The design team next set out to ensure visitors
felt as welcome inside as out. First, an onstage/
offstage circulation was adopted to ease navigation,
with a public main street on the perimeter.
This enclosed, windowed walkway essentially
spans the campus (from the main entry to the
existing emergency department to the in-progress
outpatient building and garage) with views
to the park all along the way. " You can never get
lost. You always have that park as a reference
point, " Hubertz says.
The hallmark of the first-floor public space of
the Glick Center is a double-height lobby with
300-seat dining room that offers space for patients,
staff, and community members to grab a
coffee or bite to eat or even check out an art performance.
The space also introduces the facility's
overall interiors palette that's anchored by
a deep blue complemented by a range of jewel
tones. " As much as the exterior is a huge transformation,
in comparison to the main lobby
that existed previously and the new, it's a huge
transformation-the amount of color, the space,
the daylight, " says Kate Bautista, associate vice
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ABOVE: Wayfinding is
organized along an
interior main street that
offers views out to campus
landscaping to help visitors
orient themselves as
they traverse the building.
This spine connects the
main lobby to the existing
emergency department
and to a future outpatient
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The building's orientation
at the neighborhood scale
reduces the visual impact
of the mass on the surrounding
community.
president at HGA and lead interior designer on the project.
The colors, specifically, were inspired by the numerous public art murals
in the surrounding neighborhood, Bautista says. Beyond finishes and
furnishings, the palette is even found in dichroic glass used throughout
the building-for example, for walls of staff meeting spaces on each patient
floor and as dividers within waiting spaces to bring a dynamic, colorful experience.
Fortuitously, the palette selected by the design team is almost a
match to colors found in MetroHealth's new logo and branding created independently
of the building project, with that design team inspired by the
community's colors exactly as the Glick Center team had been. " We have a
little microcosm of color from what is present in the neighborhood permeating
throughout the hospital, " Jones says.
Art plays a key role within the campus transformation, as well, with
community once again guiding the way. Linda Jackson, director of MetroHealth's
Center for Arts in Health, which integrates the visual, performing,
and therapeutic arts throughout the organization's hospitals and
clinics as well as schools and neighborhoods, says her group was created
years before the project team was assembled to ensure the arts would be
integrated within the new hospital program. The art team used the guiding
themes of " hope, healing, and community " from their purpose statement
in the selection of pieces and committed to achieving diversity within the
arts to ensure anyone who entered the building would feel welcome, " that
people would see themselves here and their stories and have shared experiences, "
she says.
To that end, MetroHealth partnered with art consultant Land Studio
to select each piece of the 1,008-piece collection that includes 695 unique
works of art (15 pieces are repeated in the patient rooms), the majority of
which (74 percent) are by local artists or artists with a local connection,
Jackson says. And thanks to the early integration of her team and partnership
with HGA, the art pairs cohesively with the design, which Jackson
attributes to the center's ability to intentionally commission pieces
that achieve the project's collective vision. " It was amazing to see how
that brought the building to life and made it even more of the community
than we could do through the architecture, " HGA's Bultman adds.
" The marriage of those two things, the holistic nature of the building and
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