The intent for the Orlando Health Freestanding Emergency Department Medical Pavilion project was to create a calming campus environment that provides state-of-the-art patient care and evokes a sense of place and connection to nature. The 67,250 SF program includes an emergency department with 24 treatment rooms and two resuscitation rooms on the first floor, and medical offices on the two floors above. The architecture intends to portray a new, modern brand while the design approach addresses the local contextual scale and the ability to expand in the future.

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Our designers had the opportunity to create a floor plate and structural layout that would allow all programs to stack harmoniously, while providing flexibility to convert the upper floors into inpatient bed units as the future needs of the community and the health campus grow. The solution includes designing the building with a structural grid that would allow the Emergency Department layout to work, as well as the clinical modules in the upper floors to work in flexible pods. The project provides distinct entrances for both program components while creating a vehicular separation for ambulances. Adapting this to a small footprint and limited site was a substantial accomplishment for the project.