Ahuja Medical Center in Beachwood, Ohio, United States

January 12, 2011 Category: Health

Ahuja Medical Center that located in Beachwood, Ohio, United States, was designed by HKS, Inc. The three-phase medical campus is organised around a flexible strategy for growth that allows the public and service spines to expand incrementally in function and capacity as the needs of the facility evolve; this is designed to occur with minimal disruption to operations, maintaining the overall aesthetic and functional integrity of the design during expansion to a 600-bed facility occurs.

The building’s form and orientation responds strongly to the site. To the north, the building base wraps around a landscaped area, transitioning to a series of protected wetlands buffering the project from the adjacent freeway. The seven-story, curved patient tower is positioned to maximise the building’s external visibility from the freeway and internal views to the adjoining wetlands, and to maintain those views in succeeding phases. The back-ventilated, rain-screen terra-cotta cladding combined with extensive low-e glazing attempts to reinterpret the materiality of the older industrial brick buildings of the region in a high-performance building skin that visibly represents the advanced medical care delivered within the facility.

Ahuja Medical Center design by HKS, Inc