Healthcare Design - October 2023 - 32

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HE UNIVERSITY OF California, San Francisco
(UCSF), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences provides psychiatric clinical services as
well as research and training programs in the San
Franciso and Bay Area. For decades, the department
operated on UCSF's Parnassus campus inside a
1940s-era building that wasn't designed for the modern
practice of psychiatry. Additionally, the building
didn't meet the state's current seismic requirements
and was being eyed for a different use entirely as part
of a campus revitalization program. " For a variety of practical reasons, we
needed to have a new home, " says Dr. Matthew State, the Oberndorf Family
Distinguished Professor and chair of psychiatry at UCSF and director of
the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute and Hospital, a psychiatric teaching
hospital at UCSF.
That effort to relocate went from simply finding a replacement facility
to building a state-of-the-art building when the department received a
$60 million gift from philanthropists John Pritzker and Lisa Stone Pritzker
in 2021. The gift was to fund a new outpatient home for researchers,
interdisciplinary academics, and outpatient mental health services for
patients of all ages. " We felt like we received 'a blank sheet of paper' and
that it would be an extraordinarily missed opportunity for us if we didn't
do everything we could to bring these disparate disciplines together and
provide a space that allowed for truly integrated care, " State says.
Space was found adjacent to UCSF's Mission Bay campus in
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OPENING SPREAD AND
ABOVE: Inside the soaring
atrium, the east wall
features an integration
of frit patterns on the
glazing elements coupled
with perforation patterns
on metal acoustical
panels, resulting in a
series of abstracted
" flowing waves. " Soft
material backings on the
perforated metal help
reduce echoes and other
ambient noise within the
space. OPPOSITE PAGE:
Patient waiting areas
are situated adjacent to
the atrium on floors 2-4
and open to the building
to reinforce the facility's
message of connection
and belonging.
San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood,
and planning began for the 173,000-squarefoot
UCSF Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry
Building (named in honor of John's sister Nancy
who died by suicide in 1972). The outpatient
project provided the opportunity to bring the
department's physical and mental health programs
and researchers together for the first
time in UCSF's history, including psychiatry,
psychology, neurology, neurosurgery, radiology,
pediatrics, anesthesiology, and obstetrics/
gynecology. " From the start, we thought about
this as the hub of activity for psychiatry and
behavioral sciences, " State says.
Bringing everything together under one roof
could help accelerate scientific discovery of improved
treatments and prevention. Additionally,
the project team, which included design architect
ZGF (Portland, Ore.) in collaboration with
Perkins&Will (San Francisco) and behavioral
health consultant Architecture + (Troy, N.Y.),
sought to advance design for mental health care
environments and help break down barriers to
care. " There were multiple discussions and a
lot of design charettes thinking about the way
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