Event Description

White Plains Hospital is a general medical and surgical, non-profit hospital located in White Plains, New York. In addition to providing general care to patients, it also operates several specialized programs.

The new state-of-the-art inpatient addition will expand the existing 292-bed medical facility, allowing the hospital to provide all private and single-patient rooms, add operating rooms and expand the Emergency Room, which is one of the busiest in the county, serving about 72,000 visitors annually.

Expanding Care

The new addition which is expected to see its first patients in 2028, will also allow White Plains Hospital to expand its critical care space, which is needed to handle the increasingly complex services that the hospital now provides.

A new main lobby on level two facing south on Maple Avenue will have a large canopy creating a new front door for both the addition and the existing main hospital.

The northern edge of the site is the location of the new Emergency Department entrance and drop-off area. A waiting room will look out on a newly landscaped urban street intersection enhancing the entry.

The upper floors will consist of two pavilions with 24 private beds each. The pavilions are slightly skewed to allow for natural daylight and improved patient room views to the exterior. Most importantly, the connection of patient pavilions is a glass waiting area for family, an important environment on the patient floors.

Patient Care Pavilions

The architecture of brick, stone and glass unites with the hospital’s architecture to create a homogeneous campus of materials and composition. The south base of the building becomes an arcade of brick masonry piers with a newly covered landscape path featuring a glazed lobby and café on the inside.

The architectural masonry volumes of the pavilions define the mechanical zones, level four and penthouse, and clearly express glazed areas for patient rooms. The pavilion E and W gateway facades utilize glass and vertical fins to define staff work areas on patient units. The north pavilion is set back, reducing the architectural massing and creating a new glass and vertical fin volume for staff work areas on the surgical and radiology floors.

All landscape materials are native, local plantings and are carefully designed for water management, low maintenance and seasonal colors for public, staff and patient enjoyment.

Bios of presenters:

Chris Blomquist, AIA / Associate Principal

Joining the firm in 2009, Chris has brought a careful design sensibility to his project work. His excellent leadership as Project Architect on the New Inpatient Building at BIDMC streamlined both the schedule and budget, allowing for an expansion to the Radiology Department. He is currently the Project Architect for the new inpatient building for White Plains Hospital.

He has worked on numerous projects while with PAYETTE, including leading the Alexandria team’s collocation design-assist process. He led the documentation and design coordination for the 5.6M SF Fifth Xiangya Hospital in China. Chris was also the Project Architect for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center’s MRI Addition, the exterior design of Boston Children’s Hospital’s Mandell Addition, and the initial Ambulatory Care Building design for BCH Needham.

EDUCATION

M.Arch., 1998, University of Virginia

B.S., Architecture, 1996, University of Virginia

Shaun Morris, AIA, LEED AP / Associate Principal

Shaun has over 20 years of diverse project experience and has been a thoughtful design leader in PAYETTE’s Healthcare Group since joining the firm in 2013. His design talent is evident from the formulation of bold concepts to well-crafted exterior details. In addition to an enviable client list that includes Penn State Health, Boston Children’s Hospital and White Plains Hospital, Shaun has also led several international design competitions. His passion for high quality design is evident in these winning competitions including the 2500-bed Fifth Xiangya Hospital, the 500-bed Hengqin General Hospital and the 500-bed Henqgin Specialty Hospital.

As a lecturer at Wentworth and Virginia Tech’s OpenLAB Studio, Shaun enjoys teaching the upcoming generation of architects. His design talent and passion for architecture has gained the respect of clients, project teams, international partners and architectural education communities.

EDUCATION

M.Arch. and Urban Culture, 2005, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

B.Arch., 2001, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Lucia Valentin / Senior Associate

Lucia joined PAYETTE in 2020 with over seven years of experience. She quickly evolved into a design force on any project that she works on, always bringing her discerning eye and interesting ideas. She has been an integral part of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home team working on all facets of the design. Lucia also contributed to the design of two large Design Competitions for the Guangming District People’s Hospital and the Seven Affiliated Hospital at Sun Yat-sen University. Currently, she is working on the design of the New Inpatient Building addition for White Plains Hospital in New York State.

Lucia has also been a mentor for the 2022 Virginia Tech Boston Studio taught at PAYETTE and is a part of the recruiting team at PAYETTE.

EDUCATION

B.Arch., 2014, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina

Caitlin Cashner, AIA / Senior Associate

Since joining PAYETTE in 2015, Caitlin has demonstrated leadership and healthcare design expertise across multiple projects. After leading the planning and design effort on the BIDMC Klarman Building’s perioperative surgical and radiology floors, Caitlin has gone on to lead the design of multiple projects of varying scales for Boston Children’s Hospital and the Yale New Haven Health System. She works directly with hospital leadership, end users and facilities teams to design thoughtful resolutions to highly technical typologies. Many of these projects necessitated highly intricate phasing, including the ED at White Plains Hospital. Caitlin is active in various internal efforts, creating resources to improve PAYETTE’s healthcare practice. She recently presented the Klarman Building at the 2023 Healthcare Facilities Design Symposium and teaches design studios as an adjunct faculty member at the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Kent State University.

EDUCATION

M. Arch, 2015, University of Michigan

MS, Architecture/Design Health, 2014, University of Michigan

BS, Architecture, 2011, Washington University in St. Louis

Topic

Advancing Architecture