In Partnership with Behnisch Architects
The 150,000 s.f. Park Street Clinical Laboratory Building is a major hospital extension located in New Haven, Connecticut. The city center site is characterized by the divide created by the Route 34 Corridor, an incomplete urban highway project, and the distinctive, five-story Air Rights Parking Garage. The Park Street Clinical Laboratory Building is a catalyst that links the two halves of the city across the divide and mitigates the urban effects of this condition while taking full advantage of the amenity provided by the Air Rights Garage. The project connects the adjacent cancer hospital with the garage through its skybridge and underground tunnel. The rectilinear laboratory building is organized around a large, five-story atrium that serves as a public winter garden which anchors the facility to the site and actively engages the community. Accessible and inviting, this internal garden will provide welcome respite throughout the year while functioning as a point of orientation to New Haven Harbor and West River Park. The atrium offers an inviting place that purposely fosters interaction among the resident researchers, medical staff, patients, and visitors. The facility, which utilizes state-of-the-art laboratory technology, is inherently flexible to adapt to changing research and user needs. The steel frame structure is clad in a unique curtain-wall system that is composed of opaque insulated panels interspersed with clear, translucent, fritted and colored glass in a range of hues, enlivening the streetscape.
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Svigals + Partners formed a partnership with Behnisch Architects, an internationally-known authority on green architecture, as well as various engineering consultants for this design/build project led by the Fusco Corporation, a private development firm.
The five-story atrium is complemented by four floors devoted to clinical laboratories, a blood bank and administrative offices. The second floor boasts a technologically advanced, multi-function partitioned auditorium/seminar room with an adjoining lobby/gathering area. The basement-level hosts a full-service pharmacy and primary loading dock both servicing the neighboring hospital. The first floor provides ample retail space to reconnect to the city grid.
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