In 2019, M Well being Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina, Minn., started planning an enlargement of its Edina healthcare campus. The undertaking would add 52 non-public affected person rooms.
In its design for the addition, Perkins&Will (Minneapolis) bridged the design language of two earlier buildings on campus. These are an eight-story mattress tower inbuilt 1964 and a two-story emergency division (ED) added in 2015. The addition was constructed atop that ED.
The ensuing design maintains the elegant curvature of the 2 authentic campus buildings whereas updating the look of the unique mattress tower.
Exterior, white fiber cement boards and enormous, recessed ribbon home windows echo the materiality of the present buildings. Massive home windows in public corridors and affected person rooms bathe the inside areas with gentle and supply treetop-level views to the outside.
Redesigned nursing areas create modular areas for nurses to stay near sufferers and have direct sight traces into affected person rooms. Versatile, adaptable areas for affected person care make sure the hospital is supplied to reply as group well being wants change.
Mission particulars:
Facility title: M Well being Fairview Southdale Hospital – Inpatient Enlargement
Location: Edina, Minn.
Completion date: September 2021
Proprietor: M Well being Fairview
Complete constructing space: 53,620 sq. ft.
Complete building value: $28.5 million
Price/sq. ft.: $532/sq. ft.
Structure agency: Perkins&Will
Inside design: Perkins&Will
Normal contractor: JE Dunn
Engineering: Graef (structural), Dunham (MEP)
Builder: JE Dunn