Project Title: St. Joseph’s Hospital – Patient Tower
Project Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Type of Construction: New Construction
Size (GSF): New: 181,000
Cost: $52,400,000
About the Project:
The urban integration and unique representation of client identity are disguising features of the new St. Joseph’s Patient Bed Tower project. A strong relationship between the patient tower and the State Capitol represents a reconnection and recommitment of St. Joseph’s Hospital to the city of St. Paul.
A custom graphic created in decorative glass, metal, and precast panels was used throughout the facility and abstractly represents St. Joseph’s identity through symbolism relating to the Sisters of St. Joseph. This pattern was created by a combination and mixing of the curves found in the golden section, a mathematical sequence of divine proportions that define organic growth patterns found in nature
The private patient rooms are same-handed and canted, with outboard toilets to allow for more access and visibility of the patients by the staff. The patient floor space allows for the appropriate amount of support, with a wider footprint creating more support by the most acute beds.
The new patient tower spans 86 feet across a city street and represents a bold move to capture a very visible northern edge of downtown and repositions future hospital expansion westward.
About the Architect:
HOK Healthcare works with academic clinicians who are defining the future of care delivery and charting the course of discovery. As a result, we bring this learned expertise to every healthcare project that we undertake across the world.
The five main principles of our healthcare practice are to design:
• Expertly Functioning Buildings
• Sustainable or Regenerative Projects
• Design Communicative of a Larger Idea
• Beautiful Objects and Spaces
• Projects that Contribute to the Health of Communities
Intelligently designed facilities look different, the experiences of patients and their families are different and the care delivered is the best available.
Organized as a global healthcare practice, HOK has individual centers of excellence throughout the world. We are able to draw upon our large-scale resources and expertise while simultaneously providing our clients with local service.
We are unique in our capabilities to provide integrated planning and design for diverse project types of any size. Our healthcare projects include a full range of facility types:
• Campus master planning and facility needs assessments
• Facility replacement projects
• Facility consolidation projects
• Outpatient centers, both freestanding and hospital-based
