Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
This medical center is designed to withstand an 8.0-plus magnitude earthquake.
Photo © Benny Chan/fotoworks
Photo © Benny Chan/fotoworks
Photo © Benny Chan/fotoworks
Image courtesy Perkins + Will and Pei Partnership Architects LLP
Image courtesy Perkins + Will and Pei Partnership Architects LLP
Image courtesy Perkins + Will and Pei Partnership Architects LLP
Architects & Firms
Los Angeles
The new, 1.2 million square-foot, eight-story Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, incorporating the Mattel Children's Hospital and the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, is a state-of-the-art facility with a humanizing and uplifting environment.
This is the first major replacement hospital built after the 1994 Northridge earthquake designed to meet the new stringent seismic codes. The hospital can withstand an 8.0-plus magnitude earthquake, particularly noteworthy considering the building’s three million pounds of travertine cladding and 80,000 square-feet of windows.
The design incorporates three, quarter-round towers emerging from a central core, breaking up the building’s mass to create the intimacy of smaller hospitals. This required a space-efficient concentration of services, accomplished by clustering related activities on a single floor or stacking them in vertical cores. The towers are staggered to open up views and allow light to enter from all sides. Clear wayfinding is achieved through easily identifiable landmarks visible from both interior and exterior locations, while major indoor public spaces feature significant daylighting and views, and access to outdoor terraces.
Natural light flows in the large windows of the 525 private patient rooms. The rooms are comfortably sized, and feature daybeds in visitor’s nooks to make a patient’s stay pleasant for families and visitors alike. Further enhancing the experience, patient rooms are equipped with everything necessary to ramp-up or dial-down care as needed, allowing for multiple care levels without transporting patients to other settings.
Technology is central to and deeply woven into the project’s DNA. The second floor is dedicated to interventional procedures, consolidating surgery, cardiac catheterization, interventional radiology, and preparation and recovery functions. Twenty-three operating rooms are collocated with interventional rooms and share a common infrastructure, enabling conversion of operating rooms into interventional rooms to accommodate future needs.
The Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, located on the fourth floor, provides psychiatric services in a soothing environment. Patient rooms include abundant daylight and views, with an outdoor terrace offering spectacular ocean views, and fresh air. The Mattel Children’s Hospital on the fifth floor addresses the needs of pediatric patients and families in a cheerful, less intimidating way. A dedicated entrance on the first floor greets patients and visitors with a 60-foot-long multimedia “Welcome Wall” where kids’ own images are projected, creating a rare sense of belonging and personalized care. Age-appropriate playrooms for toddlers to teens, and a family resource room extend to a large terrace where outdoor landscapes promote healing and rest.
PeopleOwner: Architect: And Pei Partnership Architects LLP Consulting Architect: Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: Managing Principal, Project Manager: Gabrielle A. Bullock, AIA, NOMA, LEED® AP Project Principal: Eric Van Aukee, AIA, LEED® AP Planning Principal: Jean Mah, FAIA, FACHA, LEED® AP Technical Principal: William J. Schmalz, AIA, CCCA, CSI, LEED® AP Sr. Project Architect: Mervin Burtnett, AIA, LEED® AP Team Members: Architect of record: Perkins+Will Consulting Architect: RBB Architects, Inc. Principal: Art Border, AIA Project Manager: Olive Schroder, AIA Interior designer: Pei Partnership Architects, Public Areas Design Architect Pei Partnership Architects LLP Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: Design Consultant: I.M. Pei Partner-in-Charge: C.C. Pei, RA, AIA Lead Designer: Ralph Heisel, RA, AIA Project Manager: Stephen Achilles, RA, AIA Curtain Wall: Toh Tsun Lim, RA, AIA Staff Architect: Un-Peng Chan, RA, AIA Team Members: Engineer(s): Structural Engineer: John A. Martin & Associates Consultant(s): Lighting: Kaplan Partners; Fisher Marantz Stone Acoustical: Ove Arup & Partners Medical Equipment Planning: GBA Medical Equipment Planning: Equipment Planners, Inc. Fire Protection / Telecommunications: Ove Arup & Partners Cost Estimating: Davis Langdon Signage: SKA Design Helipad Consultant: Heliplanners, Inc. Food Service Consultant: Romano Gatland Parking Design Consultant: IPD Global Traffic Consultant: Linscott, Law & Greenspan Furniture Consultant: Taylor Architects, Inc. Textile Design: Luna Textiles Curtain Wall Consultant: CDC Custom Furniture Design: Davis Furniture MicroClimate Consultant: Cermak Peterka Peterson Inc. Specifications: CMS Hardware: Door Hardware Consultants Security Consultant: Engineered Automation Systems, Inc. Specialty Lighting Design: Fisher Marantz Stone Functional / Space Programming: Hamilton HMC (now KSA) Scheduling Consultant: Hanscomb, Inc. Materials Management: Kowalski-Dickow Associates Vertical Transportation: Lerch Bates North America, Inc. Waterproofing Consultant: Roofing & Waterproofing Forensics Graphic Consultant: Sanchez Kamps Associates Design Code Consulting: Schirmer Engineering Corporation Legal Consultant: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal Radiation Consultant: Therapy Physics General contractor: Tutor-Saliba Perini Photographer(s): CAD system, project management, or other software used: Autocad 14 |
ProductsStructural system: Columbia Fabricating Company Steel Moment Frame Exterior cladding: Stone Supplier: Mariotti Carlo & Figli Stone Type: Ambra Light Travertine Concrete: T.B. Penick & Sons, Inc. Site Work Masonry: T.B. Penick & Sons, Inc. Roofing: Skylights: Metcoe Skylight Specialist Other: Sarnifil Single Ply roofing system Windows: Glazing: Canopy Glazing: Butterfly Canopy Glazing by Viarcon Doors: Doors: Contracted and Installed per ISEC Hardware: All Hardware by Ingersoll & Rand Interior finishes: Installation: Preferred Ceilings, Inc. Manufacturer: Environmental Interiors, Inc. Non-custom ceilings: USG Suspension grid: Preferred Ceilings, Inc. Demountable partitions: Modern-Fold Cabinetwork and custom woodwork: Mid Canada Millwork, LTD Paints and stains: Dunn-Edwards; Frazee Wood Paneling: Mid Canada Millwork Gypsum Paneling: Installation: WMB, Inc. Plastic laminate: Nevamar Special surfacing: Glass reinforced Gypsum (GRG) at all lobby and public corridors, 1st floor and B-1 level by WMB, Inc. Floor and wall tile: Dal Tile & Arizona Tile (patient/staff toilets) Resilient flooring: Forbo Epoxy Terrazzo Flooring: Corradini Corp. Recycled Rubber Flooring: ECO Surfaces Exterior Glass at Meditation Room: Rudy Art Glass Studio Information Desk Counter: Dark Emperador Marble Carpet: Medication Room: Masland Contract Auditorium: Karastan Contract B1 Conference Rooms: Karastan Contract Interventional Waiting: Karastan Contract Boardroom: Karastan Contract Gift Shop: Atlas Executive Offices & Family Waiting: Atlas General Offices: Monterey Interior Steel Framing: Columbia Fabricating Company VCT Flooring: Armstrong Furnishings: Office Furniture: Knoll Morrison Executive Waiting: (outside offices) Bernhardt Executive Offices: Public Waiting Areas: Interventional Waiting: Upholstery: Designtex & Knoll Upholstery: HBF Upholstery: Boardroom: Cafeteria: Upholstery: Coral of Chicago; Mayer Fabricks Outdoor Dining Commons: Outdoor Lounge Furniture: Meditation Room: ER Waiting: Upholstery: Mayer Fabrics ER Children’s Waiting: Thonet Auditorium: B1 Conference Room: B1 Café: Chairs: Tables: Upholstery: Patient Room Furniture: Lighting: Manufacturers: Custom Patient Corridor Light Fixture: Prudential Conveyance: Plumbing: Pat Toilets & lavs: Kohler Flush valves: Slone |
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