Hospitality Design - December 2016 - 85

Rendering courtesy of PERKINS EASTMAN

A rendering of MSK Josie Robertson
Surgery Center's lobby waiting area
in New York

Rendering copyright CHRIS COOPER and courtesy of PERKINS EASTMAN

>Wellness-Based Healthcare

Recent innovations in the healthcare industry have less to do with medical
interventions, and more with incorporating whole body wellness and topof-the-line service in design-focused facilities-leading to many healthcare
companies taking inspiration from hospitality spaces.
"There is a need for a wellness-based rather than a sick-based
healthcare system," says Steve Shields, chairman and managing partner
of Norterre, a multigenerational residential neighborhood being built
on 17 acres adjacent to Missouri's Liberty Hospital, with assisted living
residences, short-term suites for rehabilitation, and memory care support
buildings as well as a 50,000-square-foot healthy living complex with three
swimming pools, a running track, a nutritional cooking classroom, and a
daycare center. Crafted by Shields' Action Pact Design, the development
features a landscaped town square that is the epicenter of social activities,
and art installations are scattered around the campus. "Wellness is
spiritual, cultural, physical, mental, and emotional," Shields says. "Art
contributes to all of those senses."
In its redesign of Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Josie Robertson
Surgery Center hospital in New York-as well as the upcoming main
building at Marin General and new Stanford Hospital in San Francisco-
recently merged architecture and design firm Perkins Eastman/
ForrestPerkins aims for patients and their families to have personalized

A rendering of the exterior terrace at the
upcoming main building at the Marin General
Hospital in Greenbrae, California

The community park of multigenerational wellness neighborhood
Norterre in Liberty, Missouri

stays akin to those at a hotel or spa. "There is an air of hope, support, and
optimism that can be obtained by creating aspirational spaces," explains
Barbara Best-Santos, associate principal at ForrestPerkins. "And we are
seeing far more emphasis on beautiful and smartly designed spaces."
All three facilities channel nature. Large, operable glass doors at Marin
General blur the lines between indoor and outdoor; Stanford's massive
integrated garden for patients and staff has led to a new tagline: Science +
Compassion (+ a Garden); and a wraparound terrace overlooking the city is
now accessible at MSK.
Outside the hospital setting, the Well-a members-only club scheduled
to open next year in Manhattan-is a complete ecosystem for wellness that
will include yoga, meditation, and treatment rooms, as well as a communal
dining and lounge area. "I came up with the concept as a consumer,"
says founder and CEO Rebecca Parekh. "There are so many great
acupuncturists, Western doctors, and yoga studios in the city, but they're all
so spread out [and the] aesthetic of visiting them was not comforting." The
Well's design (thanks in part to Rose Ink Workshop in Miami) will feature
plenty of natural light; a private entrance so that members won't have to
share an elevator with other building tenants; green spaces including a
roof deck; circadian rhythm lighting; and elements such as exposed brick
walls and raw wood floors-think Soho House meets Mayo Clinic.

hospitalitydesign.com December 2016

085
http://www.hospitalitydesign.com
Hospitality Design - December 2016

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Hospitality Design - December 2016
