Description

Legacy ER operates a hybrid program offering urgent care and 24/7 state-licensed emergency medical care services within a freestanding 8,432 SF building reflecting the organization’s identity.  The building profile extrapolated the conventional residential roof planes and was given a new tectonic grammar to drive its programmatic transformation around the building.  The interior spaces blur their edges and receive natural and artificial light softly.  The points of admission of natural daylight and outdoor views create apertures that penetrate through the building membranes and elucidate the intersecting tectonic moments between the exterior and interior constructs.  The building integrated the principles of Evidence-Based Design within its spatial, circulatory, and sensory structure while being careful not to create a facility that could be perceived as overly methodical.  From outside in, the project sought to propose an architectural possibility for an emerging delivery model that fulfilled the functional program, as a baseline, and elevated the experience of seeking medical care within a contextually influential structure.  Location: Allen, Texas.  Budget: US$5 million.  Completion: 2014.  Awards: - 2014 National AIA/AAH (American Institute of Architects’ Academy of Architecture for Health) Healthcare Design Awards - 2014 IIDA (International Interior Design Association) Healthcare Interior Design Awards - Best of Category-Ambulatory Care Centers/Outpatient Clinics - 2015 Contract Magazine's 36th annual Interiors Awards - Sole Winner in Healthcare category - 2014 Interior Design Magazine's Best of Year Awards Honoree - Healthcare category - 2015 ArchDaily Building Of The Year Nominee - Healthcare category - 2014 Metal Architecture Design Awards - Metal Roofing category - 2014 MCA (Metal Construction Association) Chairman’s Awards - Overall Excellence award - 2013 American Institute of Architects-Dallas Chapter - Unbuilt Design Awards   Photo Credit: OTTO/Michael Moran.

Legacy ER operates a hybrid program offering urgent care and 24/7 state-licensed emergency medical care services within a freestanding 8,432 SF building reflecting the organization’s identity.  The building profile extrapolated the conventional residential roof planes and was given a new tectonic grammar to drive its programmatic transformation around the building.  The interior spaces blur...