Midterm Garden Design

Post-Midterm Reviews

Garden Design

Early-April Garden Design

Mountain Park Health Center is strategically located next to a busy road, Van Buren Street, and a bus stop. Our site plan optimizes the existing strategies to accommodate the variety of traffic. We have kept the ADA ramps the same and have added additional stairs that lead to the community space to provide a nature-connected transition from the surrounding landscape to the building interior.

Our team had many ideas on how to make our lobby and communicating stairs a special moment. We had focused on sunlight as a primary means early on. We later incorporated the plant and skylight idea into an indoor garden.

We still felt that a special skylight moment to connect users to the Arizona sun and sky was necessary, but not in the lobby. We devised a design for a large opening in the patio that could have shifting shadows throughout the day.

Lobby and communicating stair design concepts

Patio design with large skylight that runs through both floors.

Early Bubble Diagram

Conceptual Development

Bubble Diagram

Early Blocking Diagram

Midterm Blocking Diagram

BLOCKING DIAGRAM FLOOR 2

We took a visit to Phoenix Children's East Mesa Clinic and interviewed some of the nurses working there as well as walked around the space. Based on our observations and feedback from nurses we prioritized adjacencies of programming as shown to the left. The clinic rooms are central, and employee workspaces, lounges, and storage areas are all adjacent to one another surrounding the clinical area.