Blanchard Hall Outpatient Center: Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation
Architects & Firms
Warm Springs, Georgia
Client: Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation & GFSIC
Completion Date: September 2008
Program: A new two-story, 33,500-square-foot rehabilitation center that consolidates outpatient services, which had been scattered among existing buildings on the institute's campus. The gym and lobby span both levels; the first floor includes a diabetic foot clinic and a physicians' clinic. The second floor houses a seating and mobility clinic, a rehab technology office, a wheelchair shop, and an orthotics and prosthetics clinic and fabrication workshop.
Design Concept and Solution: Charged with building a new gateway to the campus, the architects wanted the design to echo the institute's early-20th-century brick-and-column buildings while gesturing to the technological advancements of modern rehabilitative medicine. They also aimed to create an uplifting environment for outpatients, allowing them to navigate the building independently and enjoy the landscape and nearby creek. The Stanley Beaman & Sears team chose brick that matches the original, and their steel-columned walkways riff on the columns of the campus buildings. A tensile fabric canopy at Blanchard Hall's entrance both recalls the institute's old porticoes and evokes the technology of modern prosthetics and orthotics with its threaded steel rods and steel cables. Inside, the two-story lobby and gym—bounded by glass on two and three sides, respectively—maximize natural light and views to the tree-lined creek. To further bring nature into patients' routines, the architects connected Blanchard Hall with the parking lot via a wheelchair-accessible bridge spanning the stream.
Total construction cost: $6.8 million
Gross square footage: 33,500 sq.ft.
Architect:
Stanley Beaman & Sears
180 Peachtree St., NW; Suite 600
Atlanta, GA 30303
PH: 404-524-2200
PeopleOwner Architect Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: Project Architect: Portia Ellis, RA Furniture Coordinator: Ina Sherman Furniture Coordinator: Trey Champion, IIDA, ASID Architect of record: Stanley Beaman & Sears Interior designer: Stanley Beaman & Sears Engineer(s): Structural: Stan D. Lindsey and Associates, LTD. MEP: Nottingham Brook & Pennnington Consultant(s) Geo Technical: Geo-Hydro Engineers General contractor: Photographer(s): CAD system, project management, or other software used: |
ProductsExterior cladding Curtain wall Glazing System: Uneeda Glass Co. Concrete: Classic Concrete Forming, LLC Steel: Contractors Steel Supply Metal Panel Cladding: Miller-Clapperton Partnership EIFS: Sto. Corp. Roofing Water Proofing: Carlisle Coatings & Waterproofing Glazing Doors Hardware Interior finishes Suspension grid: Celotex, Chicago Metallic Cabinetwork and custom woodwork: Plastic laminate: Formica, Nevamar, Pionite Special surfacing: Nevamar, Wilsonart, Pionite Carpet: Shaw Furnishings Reception furniture: Upholstery: Conveyance Plumbing Add any additional building components or special equipment that made a significant contribution to this project: Pre-Engineered Bridge Structures: EnWood Structures |
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