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Home » Southwest Washington Medical Center, E.W. and Mary Firstenburg Tower
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Southwest Washington Medical Center, E.W. and Mary Firstenburg Tower

Single-occupancy patient rooms and landscaped pathways designed to support human healing.

Southwest Washington Medical Center

Photo © Benjamin Benschneider

Southwest Washington Medical Center

Photo © Benjamin Benschneider

Southwest Washington Medical Center

Photo © Benjamin Benschneider

Southwest Washington Medical Center

Image courtesy NBBJ

Southwest Washington Medical Center

Image courtesy NBBJ

Southwest Washington Medical Center

Image courtesy NBBJ

Southwest Washington Medical Center
Southwest Washington Medical Center
Southwest Washington Medical Center
Southwest Washington Medical Center
Southwest Washington Medical Center
Southwest Washington Medical Center
August 1, 2010
KEYWORDS Washington
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NBBJ

Vancouver, Washington

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The design of the E.W. and Mary Firstenburg Tower supports Southwest Washington Medical Center’s 150-year-old mission of service to its patients, their families, the facility’s staff, and the surrounding community. It creates an environment of comfort, ease, and familiarity to help mitigate some of life’s most stressful and life-altering moments. It elevates the boundaries of traditional health care design to balance craft with space dedicated to the human experience—one that strengthens the social dimension of healing. And through careful attention to detail, inspired by nature, it enables a patient’s path to recovery—one from dependence to independence.

The E.W. and Mary Firstenburg Tower is part of the first phase of a master plan to create a new campus for the aging infrastructure and rapidly growing community of this hospital, one of the oldest surviving hospitals west of the Rocky Mountains.

As the first piece of complete campus renewal, the design transformed an asphalt-covered parking lot into lush healing garden and landscaped community. Three hundred varieties of trees and 3,000 plantings were dispersed among the campus’ seven new gardens.

The 307,000 square-foot, eight-story tower nearly doubles Southwest’s medical, surgical and key support services, including 144 private, single-occupancy patient rooms with family and visitor spaces, 15 state-of-the-art surgery suites, six interventional suites, a 3,370 square foot outdoor staff-only “secret” garden, the Heart and Vascular Center, the Bone and Joint Center, and the Brain and Spinal Center. Sixty new underground parking spaces providing patients with a private means to exit after surgery.

To enable the progression from patient room, found in the core of the hospital, to the gardens outside, the design created spaces where family can be involved in the healing process. It also infuses the healing power of nature into almost every aspect of the healing environment. Patient rooms are single-occupancy to enable faster healing. Rooms are angled to give patients easier access to expansive views and natural light. “Perches” were designed outside each patient room to serve as a patient porch, a family waiting area, and a physician/family area to consult. The landscaped pathways and gardens provide several options for regaining strength at various intervals of recovery: pathways close to the hospital are designed to support those who are less independent, while paths further away encourage outdoor activity.


People

Owner:
Southwest Washington Medical Center

Architect:
NBBJ
223 Yale Avenue North
Seattle, Washington  98109
Tel:206-223-5555

Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit:

Partner in charge: Richard Dallam, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP

Partner in charge of interiors: Rysia Suchecka, Hon AIA, IIDA

Project Manager: Leigh Sutphin

Lead Designer: Dale Alberda, AIA

Project Architect: James Brennan

Lead Medical Planner: Kristina Ryhn

Lead Interior Design: Christine Vandover, IIDA, LEED AP

Lighting Designer: Melanie Taylor, IALD, LEED AP

Environmental Graphic Designer: Eric LeVine

Other key project team members:
Senior Medical Planner: Dick Lee

Medical Planner: Jeff Polachowski
Architect, Medical Planner: Carolyn Johnson, NCARB, RA

Architect: Soo Park

Medical Planner: Semra Riddle, AIA

Interior Design: Pete Lorimer, LEED AP

Senior Technical Architect: Bill Auld, AIA

Senior Technical Architect: Kim Krech, AIA

Interior Designer: Sarah Oliver

Interior Designer: Samantha Chen

Designer: David Ho

Designer: Charlie Choo

Designer: Scott Francis

Interior designer:
NBBJ

Consultant(s)
Landscape: The Berger Partnership

Lighting: NBBJ

Other: KPFF Consulting Engineers; Hopper Dennis Jellison, PLLC; Sparling

General contractor: Hoffman-Andersen of Washington

Photographer(s):
Benjamin Benschneider
206-789-5973

 

Products

Exterior cladding:
Masonry: Architectural Stone, Western Tile and Marble Contractors;

EIFS, ACM, or other: Column Covers, Moz Designs

Doors:
Upswinging doors, other: Custom Doors (Hall), Overhead Door Corporation

Interior finishes:
Acoustical ceilings: Ceiling Tile, Armstrong

Plastic laminate: Counter Material (Café), DuPont

Special surfacing:
Floor and wall tile: Flooring, Toli International; Flooring, (Patient Room, Lab); Armstrong; Flooring, Specceramics

Resilient flooring:
Carpet: Custom Carpet (Lobby), Tufenkian Carpets; Carpet, Masland Carpets and Rugs

Furnishings:
Office furniture: Custom Desk Counter,Bam Bam Designs

Reception furniture: Custom Desk, Forms + Surfaces

Fixed seating: Chair (Patient Room), Steelcase

Chairs: Armchairs (Lobby, Waiting Area), Davis Furniture; Sofa, Lounge Chairs (Lobby, Waiting Area), Stools (Café), Chairs (Elevator Lobby), Brayton International; Custom Sofa (Patient Room), Custom Bench (Hall), Brandrud

Tables: Tables (Lobby, Elevator Lobby), Allemuir; Cube Table (Waiting Area), Brent Comber Originals; Table (Patient Room), Harter; Desk Material, Richlite Company; Armoire Surfacing, Nevamar Decorative Surfaces

Upholstery: Armchair back, Side Fabric, Lounge Chair Fabric (Lobby, Waiting Area), Stool Fabric (Café), Sofa Seat Fabric (Patient Room), Maharam; Armchair Seat Fabric (Lobby, Waiting Area), Sofa Back Fabric (Patient Room), Carnegie; Bench Seat Material (Hall), DuPont; Chair Fabric, Sina Pearson Textiles; Bolster Fabric, Momentum Fabric; Panel Fabric, Knoll

Other furniture: Whiteboard, Abet; Charting Station (Hall), Steelcase; Medical Equipment (Lab), Koniklijke Philips Electronics

Lighting:
Interior ambient lighting: Pendant Fixture, Vistosi Lighting; Exam Lights, Booms, Getinge Group

Task lighting:
Exterior: Custom Strip Lights, Peter David Studio

Conveyance:
Elevators/Escalators: Custom End Panels, Peter David Studio; Custom Side Panels, Forms + Surfaces; Custom Gypsum Panels, Modular Arts

 

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