Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein executives asked the Kahn team to lay the foundation for several of its expansive goals within a space seemingly limited by its dense urban environment. These objectives included maintaining the hospital’s preeminence by retooling existing spaces and creating new ones; fashioning guidelines for the facility’s growth over the next decade; and making the facility more accessible to accommodate its burgeoning services.
After a close study of the hospital’s existing physical plant and operating systems, Kahn planners produced a Master Plan for some two million square feet of space. more...
In the existing hospital core, Kahn developed plans for redesigned units to treat high-complexity cases in comprehensive centers for oncology, cardiology, neurology, orthopedics, general surgery, and transplantation. An entirely new, 16-story outpatient building was designed to provide space for outpatient services and physicians’ offices, with a second new facility to accommodate the logistics and ancillary services that such a massive campus requires.
Kahn reconceived the site’s facilities for accommodating patients and visitors—an especially acute need as the campus undergoes dramatic expansion. In addition to a bus station and a large subterranean parking facility under the new outpatient building, Kahn designed an 86,000-square-foot structure to serve parking needs through 2008. Later, as new parking space comes online, it will be converted into a part of the Logistics and Ancillary Services Building. New way-finding tools will help visitors navigate the campus, minimizing disruption for the residents of surrounding neighborhoods.
