DeTar Healthcare System, Women's & Children's Hospital
Victoria, TX
- Status
- Completed 2003
- Contact
- John Wallace (361) 788-6165
- Architect
- Lindsay Works, Polkinghorn Group Architects
- Scope of Services
- Obrentz Design collaborated with the architectural team, contractors and client to update the function and appearance of the existing 30,000 square foot hospital and to make the space "visitor friendly."
- Establishes a new image for the hospital by creating visual metaphors which emphasize a sense of wellness, vigor, and wholeness.
- Emphasizes the historical role the hospital has played in the community by developing a scheme which employs vernacular references.
- Expands the existing ground floor entry system and allows natural light to flood into the building.
- Improves the wayfinding system through:
- Implanting architectural cues within the space to assist intuitive wayfinding.
- Reorganizing locations of key services within a direct visual line of the front entry.
- Collaboration between members from the community, a newspaper editor, and a local graphic designer resulted in the development of graphic panels, which illustrate the historic role the hospital has played in the growth of the city.
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