An Ideas Based Practice

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Pavilion

Boston, MA

Description

Located atop a 16-story patient tower, the Pavilion provides distinctive services and amenities to patients with exceptional personal and business requirements—providing Brigham & Women’s unvarying standard of patient care in an atmosphere of an elegant club or hotel, with views of the Boston skyline and surrounding neighborhoods. Six units in a radial plan focus staff attention on patient needs and permits intra-suite access. Units can be linked to one another to form expanded units, or reconfigured, customizing the level of privacy and space provided each patient. Patients, medical staff, family members, and visitors can move within the suite without traveling a public corridor, an important consideration to international patients, for whom privacy may be a cultural imperative. Each patient-care unit features a bedroom, a private bath based on a European model, a kitchenette, and a separate office lounge/family area. Warm wood features, custom cabinetry, and natural light impart a residential quality.

Distinctions

Preferred Care Consortium
Design Innovation in Patient Care
Boston Society of Architects/Northeast Healthcare Assembly
Honorable Mention
“This is without a doubt the best healing environment. Beginning with the brilliant plan, the architect has created a series of unique, flexible, social spaces. This is a unique healthcare facility designed atop a major urban teaching hospital in which the beautiful space, exceptional accommodation of privacy, and support of patients' ongoing family and business interaction reflects a healing environment rather than a traditional hospital unit ... it works.”
BioConferences International
Innovators Award for Hospital Space Planning