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HEAL
TH

WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S FACILITY

HONORABLE
MENTION

Florida Hospital for Women ORLANDO, FLA.
Submitted by: HKS Inc. ORLANDO, FLA.

As the centerpiece of Florida

From the inception of the project,

2016

Project category: New construction
Chief administrator: Kari Vargas, vice president, strategy and business
development
Firm: HKS Inc., www.hksinc.com
Design team: HKS Inc. (architect); VOA (interior designer); Paul J Ford
(structural engineer); TLC Engineering for Architecture (MEP consultant); GAI
Consultants (civil engineer); Foster Conant (landscape architect)
Photography: Michael Stavaridis
Total building area (sq. ft.): 400,000
Construction cost/sq. ft.: $327
Total construction cost (excluding land): $131 million
Completed: January 2016

Hospital's flagship campus and

the client challenged the design team

as a symbol of the entire system's

to reinvent the patient experience. To

commitment to holistic women's health,

that end, the architectural procession-

the new Florida Hospital for Women

from the glazed porte cochère, through

required a striking visual presence.

the double-height, serenely illuminated

Wellness, which will include a

Simultaneously, because of its siting

main lobby, into the triage and

high-risk breast cancer clinic,

within a dense health village precinct,

admittance space, and finally into each

mammography services, lactation

the design demanded sensitivity

patient care area-is designed to strip

center, cardiac screenings, and health

to the surrounding structures. The

away the institutional patina from the

classes. The first phase also includes

architectural response juxtaposed

typical hospital experience. All patient

the opening of 72 mother-baby rooms

the angular, solemn, and masculine

and family spaces are finished with

and high-risk OB rooms, 14 labor and

expression of the existing hospital

high-touch materials inspired by water

delivery suites, and three cesarean-

buildings with the sinuous, playful,

and informed by strategies employed

section operating rooms. When

and elegant form of the new women's

by the hospitality sector. The muted

completed, the Florida Hospital for

tower. Rising subtly from a reflecting

colors, soft lighting, and spatial flow

Women will offer general and high-

pool at its leading edge water came to

lend a luxurious feel to spaces already

risk obstetrics, gynecology, a Level 3

be a powerful analogy and conceptual

well-tuned for healing.

NICU, one of the only milk depots

grounding for the entire project, which

The first phase of this 400,000-

in the region, oncology services,

is evident in the flowing and reflective

square-foot, 12-story tower includes

a comprehensive interventional

exterior articulation as well as the

the opening of four floors. The first

platform, breast care, cardiovascular

interior spatiality, materiality, and art.

floor houses the Center for Women's

care, wellness education, and more.

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