PHOTO TOUR: Ventura County Medical Center
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The Ventura County Medical Center replacement wing is designed to reflect the local coastal landscape and blend in with the existing campus buildings. The building’s sand-colored, precast-concrete exterior complements the coastal blue and white color scheme in the interior.
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A pier-inspired “boardwalk” guides visitors from the surface parking to the new pedestrian entrance. Perforated, wave-like wall panels create a decorative element that provides privacy while still allowing natural light into patient rooms.
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The outdoor children’s play area, located next to the pediatrics unit, features a shoreline theme. Play pieces include a “beached” boat, starfish, inner tubes, and an “island” complete with a palm tree. Flocks of sea birds flying overhead add to the marine-inspired environment.
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The hospital incorporates extensive use of outdoor garden spaces to foster connection to nature and a healing environment. In addition to a publicly accessible healing garden with a meandering contemplative path, patient rooms and corridors look out to an enclosed viewing garden and a series of green roofs on multiple floors of the hospital.
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An atrium lobby connects the multiple levels between the main entry and the mezzanine pedestrian “boardwalk.” Extensive glazing allows natural light to shine into the lobby.
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The Southern California coast and the Pacific Ocean inspired the design, particularly the selection of materials, textures, graphic treatments, and coastal-inspired color palette.
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The patient rooms feature extra-large windows to allow natural light to filter into the space and views to the natural landscape. The patient rooms, which were inspired by hospitality design, include guest seating and a flat screen television for increased comfort.
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The ground floor contains the interventional and imaging platforms, including eight operating rooms, MRI, PET/CT, and nuclear medicine. Two of the ORs are hybrids rooms with imaging capabilities, and several of the ORs are equipped to accommodate advanced technology.
Ventura County Medical Center’s 248,000-square-foot replacement wing opened to patients in August 2017. The four-story building includes 119 hospital beds; an expanded emergency department; three intensive care units; surgery with advanced technology; labor, delivery and NICU departments; and a new pediatrics wing.
The medical center is Ventura County’s first design-build project as well as the first design-build hospital constructed under California’s OSHPD jurisdiction from program. The design, by architecture firm HOK (Los Angeles), creates a cohesive aesthetic inspired by the local coastal landscape while blending the replacement wing with the existing campus buildings.
Project details:
Facility name: Ventura County Medical Center
Location: Ventura, Calif.
Completion date: August 2017
Owner: Ventura County
Total building area: 248,000 sq. ft.
Total construction cost: $230 million
Cost/sq. ft.: $927
Architecture firm: HOK
Interior design: HOK
Contracting: Clark Design – Build of California, Inc.
Engineering: KPFF, M-E Engineers, Michael Baker Int’l., Mazzetti + GBA, Langan
Construction: Clark Design – Build of California, Inc.
