Health Care - Award of Merit: Bayhealth Medical Center - Kent Campus Expansion
Part of an ongoing master plan expansion of Bayhealth's Kent campus, the $140-million Phase 2 Clinical Pavilion connects to existing facilities and is also designed as a base for a future seven-story patient tower. The 391,000-sq-ft pavilion serves as a new entrance to the overall site, with a skylit entry canopy and lobby that helps to orient patients and visitors to existing hospital functions as well as to the new 375-car parking garage.
The facility includes a state-of-the-art emergency department with helipad, an integrated oncology center, conference and training center, central sterile department and compounding pharmacy. In the lobby, a curvilinear floor opening on the second level frames the skylight. The upward sweep of a wave-like stair interlocks with a wood-clad canopy. Similar to the lobby, the design strategy for the oncology center relies on the interaction between a wave-like vertical element and a ceiling canopy for its spatial structure.