Altitude Dialysis Aurora – Altitude Dialysis
MOA Architecture brought together the parent company’s prototype standards package and a new approach to renal care. With at-home dialysis as a focus of this facility, the interiors took residential styling into the realm of healthcare. The project addresses the healthcare requirements of a renal care facility and softens the edges through interior design focal points.
The reception room relates to an upscale residential foyer, with a modern ceiling coffer and herringbone-patterned insets. Similar detailing carries through on the treatment floor, repeating dark blue accent walls, mixed with weathered wood tones. The treatment floor, an area known as the den, offers a strong focal point through a residentially-styled center island with red pendant lights. Whitewashed stacked wood adds a casual touch to both the den and the reception room. The home dialysis treatment rooms continue the design with dark wood tones and crisp whites to contrast the weathered wood luxury vinyl flooring. Staff areas were carefully considered and offer ergonomic and aesthetic design elements throughout.
Nancy Bounds’s direct design involvement in Altitude Dialysis included:
- Review of space plan for FGI compliance and interior design impact
- Design updates that included the application of client suggested materials while respecting local client’s desire for changes to established Prototypes
- Design of lighting plan with the team, involvement with the team regarding Revit drawings and construction documentation for the overall project
- Coordination of MEP requirements with Project Architect and Project Manager
- Compliance with Owner’s Prototype, including checklists outlining discrepancies
- The interior design of the space, which includes material and color selections, application of a variety of wall finishes and wall protection, moldings and trim detailing
- Interior Design Construction documentation including detailed Finishes Plan, Finishes Specifications, and a Furniture and Equipment Plan
- Visual direction for Revit materials and renderings, with Project Architect
- Creation of several Client Presentations that included precedent images, material options, unique product options, lighting concepts, and renderings
- Involvement in team meetings for project coordination
Platte Valley Saratoga Clinic – Memorial Hospital of Carbon County
The Owner wanted to replicate a successful clinic that MOA had designed and to add a physical therapy gym and clinic areas to the program.
The site’s configuration led to a central reception area that gives direct access to three key patient areas – an exam room wing, a diagnostic core, and the Physical therapy area. The new facility worked with a similar color scheme, however, key materials were discontinued. With the central reception area providing a rich, neutral focus, each patient care area used unique colorations to assist with placemaking and wayfinding. The six exam rooms alternate between blue and green accent elements, neutral walls, and rich wood-toned casework. Walls in the corridor are accented to highlight entrances and exits. In the gym area, green accents considered the views of the nearby prairies and distant mountains, offering visual warmth on a cold winter day. Light gray walls and warm gray patterned carpet are the textural backdrops for the offices and conference room. The casework throughout is warm brown laminate wood and provides an anchor to the colors throughout the space.
The interior design approach offers a distinctive appearance that will help further define the client’s brand. Consistency in the exterior and interior materials, with thoughtful updates, helps anchor the identity of this health system looking to expand its brand in the community.
Nancy Bounds’s direct design involvement in the Platte Valley Saratoga clinic included:
- Provide 4 distinct space plans for consideration by the architectural team. One of the space plans was selected with minimal floor plan adjustment to realize into a building design
- The layout of the space plan considered FGI compliance, design impact, and wayfinding
- Interior Design material selection included the application of previous materials, as well as updating materials and selecting locations for color that enhance wayfinding
- Design of lighting plan with the team, involvement with the team regarding Revit drawings and construction documentation for the overall project
- Coordination of MEP requirements with Project Architect and Project Manager
- Coordination of Owner’s equipment with casework and MEP consultants
- The interior design of the space, which includes material and color selections, application of a variety of wall finishes and wall protection, moldings and trim detailing
- Interior Design Construction documentation including detailed Finishes Plan, Finishes Specifications, and a Furniture and Equipment Plan
- Direct management of Revit materials and interior renderings
- Creation of several Presentations that included material options and renderings
- Involvement in team meetings for project coordination
Pathways Hospice Inpatient Care Center – Care Synergy
The distinctive architecture of Pathways Hospice helped shape the interior design approach.
The wide curved corridors offered nodes of interaction (coffee shop, family dining, great room, nurse stations) that needed to feel connected but distinct. The two patient wings spun from this curved core and provided a design opportunity to create unique color schemes for each wing. In each of the public areas, key design focal points anchor the expansive spaces – a stone fireplace, a wall of rich and varied blue tile, a chic residentially styled kitchen, large art pieces, and memorable lighting. These key elements, along with the unique architecture and strategically located accent colors, help new patients and visitors to understand and easily navigate the space.
The reflection room offers a quiet backdrop to the dramatic two-story art window. Subtle walls reveals conceal acoustical panels and shifts in wall color. The organic patterns found in the carpet tile patterns throughout support the naturalistic branding of the building, with its large beams, exposed wood elements and rich wood doors and trims.
To enrich the experiences of the patients and their families, each patient room received a unique color scheme with residential touches in moldings and casework. The lively pastel colors of the room are enhanced by a soft white wainscot and warm wood tones.
Acoustical design enlisted a variety of ceiling types including wood slat ceilings and felted products. Acoustical wall panels have been integrated into the design in key areas. Patient’s privacy is enhanced through specialty door hardware, wall designs, room layouts and material selections. Staff support spaces are ergonomic, incorporate soft colors and consider acoustics and aesthetics.
The design goal was to create an environment that is at once, comforting, but visually stimulating. When we prepare our loved ones for their next steps in Hospice, we hope the space will help soften their experience and perhaps, inspire.
Nancy Bounds’s direct design involvement in the Pathways Hospice project included:
- Interior Design material selection including detailed options, presentation of new materials, and design concepts that satisfy healthcare requirements and enhance wayfinding
- Design of lighting plan with the team, involvement with the team regarding Revit drawings and construction documentation for the overall project
- Coordination of MEP requirements with Project Architect and Project Manager
- Review existing lighting, and suggest options/select new light fixtures
- Coordination of Owner’s equipment with casework
- The interior design of the space, which includes material and color selections, application of a variety of wall finishes and wall protection, moldings and trim detailing
- Construction documentation including Casework design, Detailing, Finishes Specifications, Finishes Legend and detailed Finishes Plan, and Furniture and Equipment Plan
- Direct management of Revit materials and interior renderings with Project Designer
- Creation of more than 10 Presentations that included material options and renderings, design sketches, and concepts
- Involvement in team meetings for project coordination
- FGI compliance documentation
General Contributions
Nancy’s contributions in her time working with MOA extended beyond project work, and included the following general contributions:
- Creation of several useful forms to track compliance, specify equipment or materials and track project requirements.
- Reviewed construction documents for several projects for Quality Control.
- Created unique presentations that proved especially useful to the client and other team members to communicate design concepts or summarize project directions.
- Offered expertise in the review of technical and code requirements including FGI documents, interior specifications, code compliance, ADAAG compliance.
- Assisted with Revit drawing at all levels (concept to detailed) and provided Revit improvements for workflow efficiency.
- Worked closely and at a highly detailed level with a wide variety of team members, including mechanical and electrical engineers. Refinement of 3D renderings with a key Project Designer helped the team and the client to anticipate design outcomes.
- Works to enhance the profession of interior design and healthcare interior design.
