Client: Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System
Program: Four public outpatient clinics for the Santa Clara County health-care system, serving county employees and the uninsured. The buildings include the six-story, 244,000-square-foot Valley Specialty Center, a multispecialty clinic on the San Jose hospital campus, along with three primary-care clinics: a 59,074-square-foot two-story facility in the town of Gilroy; a 44,722-square-foot three-story in Sunnyvale; and a 62,532-square-foot three-story in Milpitas.
Design Concept and Solution: Designing the four buildings simultaneously, the Anshen + Allen team wanted to devise a format both replicable and flexible, to allow the clinics to move services around without remodeling. Three of the four buildings were constructed simultaneously, so that the owner could take advantage of cost savings. The organizing unit of all the clinics is a module that consists of two side-by-side clinics, each containing exam rooms, a nurse station, physician offices, and support spaces. With exam rooms and support spaces that are nearly identical, each clinic can borrow rooms from its neighbor to accommodate fluctuating numbers of patients. The rooms, too, are fractions or multiples of each other, so that two exam rooms can be repurposed as a procedure room, for example. This interchangeability also allows entire medical functions to move to a different module—or a new floor—allowing the clinics to expand or shrink services according to demand. To free the modules of structural supports that would interfere with such flexibility, the architects organized columns around the modules and used moment frames to keep braces and shear walls out of the plan. They extended their kit-of-parts approach to the building materials, using curtainwalls along the buildings' public corridors and enclosing the private treatment areas and physician offices with precast concrete cladding and an aluminum ribbon window system.
Completion Date:
July 2010 (Valley Health Center, Milpitas)
May 2009 (Valley Health Center, Sunnyvale)
May 2008 (Valley Health Center, Gilroy)
February 2009 (Valley Specialty Center)
Total construction cost:
$38.2 million (Valley Health Center, Milpitas)
$29.1 million (Valley Health Center, Sunnyvale)
$35.7 million (Valley Health Center, Gilroy)
$96 million (Valley Specialty Center)
Gross square footage:
44,722 sq.ft. (Valley Health Center, Sunnyvale)
62,532 sq.ft. (Valley Health Center, Milpitas)
59,074 sq.ft. (Valley Health Center, Gilroy)
244,000 sq.ft. (Valley Specialty Center)
PeopleArchitect: Anshen + Allen, Architects Valley Health Center, SunnyvaleOwner: Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit:
Interior designer: Anshen+Allen
Engineer(s): Structural: Rutherford and Chekene Mechanical: Guttmann & Blaevoet Electrical: The Engineering Enterprise Civil: Rutherford and Chekene
Consultant(s): Landscape: Royston, Hanamoto, Alley and Abey Lighting: The Engineering Enterprise Acoustical: Rosen Goldburg Der & Lewitz Other: Signage Consultant: Kate Keating Associates, Inc.
General contractor: Swinerton Builders, General Contractor
Photographer(s): © Cesar Rubio Photography
Valley Health Center, MilpitasOwner: Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit:
Architect of record: Anshen + Allen, Architects
Interior designer: Anshen + Allen, Architects
Engineer(s): Structural: Rutherford and Chekene Mechanical: Guttmann & Blaevoet Electrical: The Engineering Enterprise Civil: Rutherford and Chekene
Consultant(s): Landscape: Royston, Hanamoto, Alley and Abey Lighting: The Engineering Enterprise Acoustical: Rosen Goldburg Der & Lewitz Other:
General contractor: S. J. Amoroso Construction Company
Photographer(s): © Cesar Rubio Photography
Renderer(s): Scott Taylor Architectural Rendering
CAD system, project management, or other software used: AutoCad 2002
Valley Health Center, GilroyOwner: Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit:
Interior designer: Anshen+Allen
Engineer(s): Structural: Rutherford and Chekene Mechanical: Guttmann & Blaevoet Electrical: The Engineering Enterprise Civil: Rutherford and Chekene
Consultant(s): Landscape: Royston, Hanamoto, Alley and Abey Lighting: The Engineering Enterprise Acoustical: Rosen Goldburg Der & Lewitz Other:
Swinerton Builders, General Contractor
Photographer(s): © Cesar Rubio Photography
Valley Specialty CenterOwner: Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit:
Architect of record: Anshen+Allen
Associate architect(s): Anderson Brulé Architects
Interior designer: Anshen+Allen
Engineer(s): Structural: Rutherford and Chekene Mechanical: Guttmann & Blaevoet Electrical: The Engineering Enterprise
Consultant(s): Security: TEECOM Design Group Lighting designer: JS Nolan + Associates Lighting Design Acoustician: Rose Goldberg Der & Lewiz, Inc Furniture dealer: Sidemark, Pivot Sustainability/Façade Consulting: Arup Signage: Kate Keating Associates, Inc.
General contractor: McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. Construction Manager: Turner Construction Company
Photographer(s): © Cesar Rubio Photography |
ProductsValley Health Center, SunnyvalePrincipal Interior Construction Materials by Manufacturer Wallcoverings: Carnegie/ Xorel Principal Furnishings by Manufacturer Exam room seating: Brayton International Building Systems by Manufacturer Elevators: Otis Elevator Company Conveyance Elevators/Escalators: Otis Elevator Company
Valley Health Center, MilpitasExterior cladding Metal/glass curtainwall: Kawneer, Viracon (glass) Roofing Built-up roofing: GAF Windows Steel: Security Metal Products Corp. Glazing Glass: PPG industries Doors Entrances: Horton Inc. Hardware Locksets: Schlage Interior finishes Acoustical ceilings: Armstrong Furnishings Office furniture: Teknion Lighting Interior ambient lighting: Daybrite, HE Williams, Williams, Louis Poulsen, Focal Point, Lenear, Studio Design Italia, Visa, Lithonia Conveyance Elevators/Escalators: Vertical Express Plumbing Haws (drinking fountain)
Valley Health Center, GilroyWallcoverings: Carnegie/ Xorel Principal Furnishings by Manufacturer Exam room seating: Brayton International Building Systems by Manufacturer Elevators: Otis Elevator Company Conveyance Elevators/Escalators: Otis Elevator Company
Valley Specialty CenterPrincipal Interior Construction Materials by Manufacturer Wallcoverings: Carnegie Xorel Principal Furnishings by Manufacturer Exam room seating: Brayton Building Systems by Manufacturer Elevators: Kone Conveyance Elevators/Escalators: Lerch Bates & Associates, Inc. Plumbing Elkay Add any additional building components or special equipment that made a significant contribution to this project Curtainwall: Architectural Glass and Aluminum Precast Concrete: Willis Construction |
