Palo Alto Medical Foundation, San Carlos Center
Nature positively impacts healing, yet many healthcare clinics do not embrace their natural surroundings. Seeking to create a more unique, competitive care model, Palo Alto Medical Foundation’s San Carlos Center taps into people’s innate connection to nature to benefit patient recovery, staff engagement and the environment.
The San Carlos Center thoughtfully merges the indoors and outdoors on a remediated brownfield site, making use of native landscaping, natural materials and views and access to nature—all of which are proven to speed recovery. Organic, nature-inspired forms and craftsmanship bring tranquility and warmth to the Center’s interior spaces, while outdoor healing gardens, courtyards and meadows provide space for respite and return a once polluted industrial site to its former natural state.
Features
The compactness of the design minimizes travel distances and brings daylight into almost every space.
Project Details
Client Name
Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Square Footage
190,000 SF
Program
Outpatient clinic, administrative offices, ambulatory surgery center, parking
Services
Architecture, Interior design, medical planning, lighting design, environmental graphics
Phase
Completed
Client Name
Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Square Footage
190,000 SF
Program
Outpatient clinic, administrative offices, ambulatory surgery center, parking
Services
Architecture, Interior design, medical planning, lighting design, environmental graphics
Phase
Completed
Architects for Health, Design Award Finalist
Contract Interiors Award, Healthcare
IIDA Healthcare Interior Design Competition, Best Medical Office Building Public Spaces
Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), Illumination Award of Merit
Interior Design, Best of Year, Large Healthcare
Architects for Health, Design Award Finalist
Contract Interiors Award, Healthcare
IIDA Healthcare Interior Design Competition, Best Medical Office Building Public Spaces
Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), Illumination Award of Merit
Interior Design, Best of Year, Large Healthcare
Building Design + Construction, "Project first’ philosophy shows team’s commitment to a true IPD on the San Carlos Center”
Contract, “Palo Alto Medical Foundation San Carlos Center”
Interior Design, “Nature and Nurture: NBBJ's Palo Alto Medical Foundation San Carlos Center”
San Francisco Business Times, “Sutter and PAMF set to open $200 million new San Carlos Center on Monday”
Building Design + Construction, "Project first’ philosophy shows team’s commitment to a true IPD on the San Carlos Center”
Contract, “Palo Alto Medical Foundation San Carlos Center”
Interior Design, “Nature and Nurture: NBBJ's Palo Alto Medical Foundation San Carlos Center”
San Francisco Business Times, “Sutter and PAMF set to open $200 million new San Carlos Center on Monday”
