Project Description
FROM THE AIA TENNESSEE:
This renovation of an unused hospital courtyard
between two adjoining towers provides an updated image reflective of the
hospital’s new brand and level of care.
Challenged to provide a more welcoming and humane respite for patients
and guests, bamboo was introduced as the primary landscape material that
offered a new vertical scale to the space and provided a soft veil to mask the
adjacent buildings. The entry and windows are delineated by Cor-Ten steel thresholds
on the floor plane and provide openings through the bamboo veil. Massive wooden seating elements serve as
natural, functional and sculptural elements in the courtyard.