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Randall Children’s Hospital

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Client:Legacy Health
Architects:ZGF Architects
Location:Portland, Oregon, USA
Size:334,000 square feet | 31,000 square meters
Completion Date:2012

Photo Credit: Nick Merrick © Hedrich Blessing

The nine-story Randall Children’s Hospital consolidates pediatric services at the Legacy Emanuel Medical Center campus and provides 165 inpatient beds in single rooms for acute care, neonatal intensive care, and pediatric intensive care. The hospital features generous amenity spaces for patients, families, and staff, including two-story family lounges, a dedicated art studio, movie theater, teen center, workout facility, staff break rooms, and lounges.

Interiors are highlighted with bright color palettes and animal motifs representing the four geographic regions served by the hospital: the Willamette Valley, the Cascade Mountain Range, the Oregon Coast, and the desert. Art and environmental graphics enliven spaces throughout, creating a sense of unexpected discovery and contributing to a healing environment.

A special design emphasis provides respite from noise. Wireless devices worn by hospital staff eliminate the need for overhead paging. The wood finishes, carpeting, artwork, and floor-to-ceiling windows in common areas are intended to make the spaces feel less like a hospital and more like a home.

KS: Very nice! The airport is obviously a major project for you. Going back ten years, is there another one or two that is special?

SVDM: This is a hard one because when you work on many different types of projects over the years, they’re all near and dear for certain reasons. I think Randall Children’s Hospital would have to be right up there at the top. It’s special to me because I had just completed the design of a large children’s hospital in Colorado. It was a replacement hospital and where I first explored the concept of what it meant to design meaningful and healing environments for a pediatric population. When that project finished, there was an opportunity to design a new children’s hospital on an urban campus for Legacy Health.

They had extensive pediatric programs embedded in their existing hospital, but they wanted to design and build a new standalone children’s hospital with its own identity. That was just a great opportunity, and I led the design of that project. What was so interesting is we were able to, with the client, imagine and develop the brand of a new children’s hospital and how the design would respond to their values. The result was a more sophisticated approach to design that dealt with the entire psyche of the patient and focused on family centered care.

I think it turned the corner in a lot of ways for health care as it explored how design can provide a positive impact to health and healing. That was one of the major drivers for this project: how can we elevate the environment? How can we innovate to make it better for patients, families, staff, doctors, nurses? That was an amazing client and project for me personally.

I think the other project is a quintessential ZGF interiors project: The new offices for Stoel Rives, a law firm with NW roots. They moved into the top nine floors of a new building in downtown Portland. It’s a beautifully executed interior space, a strongly conceived concept and well detailed. The design really expresses the classic Pacific Northwest style and our client’s goals around being timeless, restrained, and sustainable.

Stoel Rives has historically represented some of the wood industry leaders as clients, so the space has a very beautiful expression of wood and is supported by the execution in detailing. They also have a notable Pacific Northwest art collection, and the space works as a backdrop to highlight the collection.

I think that it is a perfect example of the ZGF design acumen. I don’t think we necessarily have a style, but we have attributes and foundations of design that we try to infuse in every project. We take a lot of pride in how materials come together and how the design is expressed through the craft of construction.

So those two projects are really special. And, of course, the PDX airport is a chance of a lifetime. There’s a lot of pressure to get it right, but we’re designing with intention that this building and experience are for everybody in the community. It’s not for us, it’s not for the Port, it’s everybody’s building.

KS: You mentioned three projects: a complex airport renovation; a children’s hospital; a law firm headquarters. All very different project types and scales. Yet there’s a commitment to design excellence and craft in each of those. A wonderful dimension of ZGF’s practice is the diversity of projects to which you bring that intention.

SVDM: You know, I learned this lesson from Greg Baldwin.1 You remember Greg. He taught me that if you’re a good designer, you can design at any scale. And that’s a really powerful statement. You shouldn’t be afraid to work on urban planning, design furniture, or work on an exterior skin – and I’ve had a chance to explore all those scales of design during my career.

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