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KSHITIJ NASHINE
BA15ARC030
UCLA Outpatient Surgery and Oncology
Location: Santa Monica, California Center
Square footage: 58,651 BGSF
3-story building
Gold LEED certification
AIA-AAH Awards
moderate climate
The design concept asserts that a more natural and less clinical
environment promotes healing in patients and alert, productive
behavior in doctors, staff, and students.
Primary design considerations include the creation of a distinctive
and articulated massing, the maximal inclusion of natural day
lighting and ventillation throughout the building, and a strong
indoor-outdoor connection.
Circulation
eight operating rooms for
outpatient surgery
a linear accelerator for
radiation oncology
space for future growth
a laboratory and a pharmacy
clinical offices for several
UCLA Department of
Medicine practices,
including the Food and
Drug Allergy Care Center,
Center for Inflammatory
Bowel Diseases, digestive
diseases, pulmonary and
sleep medicine, and
nephrology
Ground Floor
First Floor
Second Floor
Second-floor surgery center features eight identical surgical rooms along the
south side of the building.
Identical rooms increase patient outcomes by negating the need for medical
personnel to become re-oriented to a different room for each procedure.
Natural light infuses areas normally darkened—prep and recovery, sterile
corridors, staff break rooms, and administrative areas.
Clerestory windows, openings to the light-filled atrium, and warped ceiling
structure bring in natural light,
A series of rooms is defined by the inclusion of sidelights (for offices) or not (for
examination rooms).
Third Floor
The north volume, with oncology areas fortified in
steel and concrete, provides security, privacy and
sensitivity for patients, doctors, and nurses.
o There are private patient entrances
o The linear accelerator rooms comprise one million
pounds of concrete imbedded with three layers of
lead
o Despite the imposing equipment and three-foot-
thick walls, the rooms are humanized with the
continued use of bamboo flooring and walls.
The south volume contains an expansive, well-appointed waiting area that
is open to the atrium as well as to an outdoor patio.
o The outdoor landscaped waiting area features L-shaped wood-topped
concrete benches for added privacy.
o The space is protected from direct sunlight and excessive solar heat gain by
shade created by a 25-foot cantilever over the patio.
o Throughout the south volume, sidelights, clerestory windows, and fixed
louvers admit and manage natural light with efficiency and sensitivity.
Sections
Strategies
Daylighting
o Central Light-filled Lobby with full height
mullion-less glass as 3-story Indoor/Outdoor
connection.
ATRIUM o Key Public and Patient areas with perimeter
windows and /or skylights
Views to Nature
o Shaded and unshaded exterior Garden Patios
provide choice of outdoor Respite area
o Interior Planting are brought deep into the
building bringing views to Nature inside as well
SHADED
GARDENS
LIGHT SHELVES AND
LOUVERED FENESTRATION
Fritted glass roof, allowing light
to flood the central common area
of the building
The great room contains a bent-beam
cantilevered staircase, glass-enclosed
elevators, and two sky-bridges leading people
efficiently between the north and south
volumes.
first fully-automated parking system in Southern California
accommodates 385 cars in a footprint 50 percent smaller than
conventional garages.
Geometry
Geometry consists of rectangles
From the front of the building you can see
the centre rectangle is smaller(the
entrance) , than the ones on either side of
it
Natural Light
Private vs
Public space
Structure
Symmetry
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