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Medical University of South Carolina, Ashley River Tower
Ashley River Tower is the first phase of MUSC’s 20-year replacement plan. This 515,000 sf heart and digestive disease complex comprises a four-story building that houses all heavy technology spaces (such as surgery, imaging, and interventional cardiology) and a seven-story hospitality tower that contains ambulatory clinics, faculty offices, teaching spaces, and 154 patient rooms. A garden atrium connects the two structures and creates a place for a gathering and holding social events.
Standardized planning modules adaptable to new acuity levels and new equipment were developed. Additional flexibility and efficiency were gained by standardizing procedure rooms, co-locating interdependent programs, and intergrading academic learning spaces.
In line with the design concept of “healing hospitality”, Ashley River Tower offers an abundance of natural light, spacious and private patient rooms, and services such as a concierge, valet parking, visitor’s business center, and family lounges with kitchenettes.
Banner Gateway Medical Center
The first of Banner Health’s "franchise model" hospitals, Banner Gateway Medical Center follows the award-winning prototype of Banner Estrella. At the heart of the concept is a building organization that enables flexibility and efficient reconfiguration while preserving standards from one facility to the next.
Banner Gateway was deigned to meet the demands of its fastgrowing community. This 380,000 sf facility combines 165 private patient rooms with obstetrics, pediatrics, general surgery, and emergency services. Planned locations for future bed towers will allow for seamless expansion to 350 private beds if needed.
The raw beauty of Arizona’s canyons, deserts, and streams served as the building’s central design theme, informing form, material selection, and color palettes. Garden spaces and gently flowing water features appear along the central “canyon” of the building, and eco-friendly techniques such as maximizing daylight, sun shading, and site orientation to reduce solar heat gain were used throughout.