Brigham and Women’s Hospital in BOSTON by nbbj

Article source: nbbj

Brigham and Women’s Hospital yesterday broke ground on the Brigham Building for the Future, a 620,000-square-foot translational research and clinical facility designed by NBBJ.

The 11-story Brigham Building for the Future, located on the hospital’s Longwood campus,will house eight floors of research laboratories, three floors of clinics, a state-of-the-art imaging facility, social spaces, and a 400-car garage, along with associated site improvements.

The 11-story project includes site improvements and integrates with the existing circulation system of the hospital campus, Image Courtesy © nbbj

• Architects: nbbj
• Project: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Location: BOSTON
• Software used: Revit 2012 for BIM documentation, as well as AutoCAD, Sketchup, and Adobe Creative Suite

The Brigham Building for the Future will bring 620,000 square feet of translational research and clinical space to Brigham and Women’s Hospital.- Image Courtesy © nbbj

The facility aims to advance patient care by furthering translational research, collocating the researchers and clinicians in order to break down the barriers between them. Social spaces including touchdown areas, conference rooms, cafés and a roof garden encourage further interaction, while a public gallery at street level promotes the hospital’s research to visitors and patients. Meanwhile, flexible clinical floors integrate clinicians across multiple sub-specialties, providing the highest quality of multidisciplinary care for patients with complex neurological and musculoskeletal conditions. Designed to achieve LEED Gold certification, the Brigham Building for the Future is expected to complete in 2016.

The flexible floor plan allows research and clinical spaces to be located on the same level, helping maximize collaboration between disciplines and advance discovery, Image Courtesy © nbbj

About NBBJ

NBBJ creates innovative places and experiences for organizations worldwide, and designs communities, buildings and environments that enhance people’s lives. Founded in 1943, NBBJ is an industry leader in healthcare facilities and has a strong presence in the corporate, commercial, civic, science and educationand sports markets. The first architecture firm named to the World Economic Forum’s Community of Global Growth Companies, NBBJ has won numerous awards and has been recognized as one of the “greenest” architecture firms in the United States.

The façade and massing bring much-needed daylight into the building, even to the lobby areas on lower levels, Image Courtesy © nbbj

NBBJ has more than 600 employees in 10 offices worldwide in Beijing, Boston, London, Los Angeles, New York, Columbus, Pune, San Francisco, Seattle and Shanghai. Recent clients include Alibaba, Amazon, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Boeing, Cambridge University, Cleveland Clinic, GlaxoSmithKline, Google, Massachusetts General Hospital, Reebok, Salk Institute, Samsung, Stanford University, Starbucks, Telenor, Tencent and the Wellcome Trust. (http://www.nbbj.com)

A pedestrian bridge connects the building to the existing hospital campus via the “Pike,” a quarter-mile-long pedestrian circulation system, which the new building now anchors, Image Courtesy © nbbj

Vertical louvers animate the façade and help reduce solar heat gain, Image Courtesy © nbbj

Tags: Boston

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