Trillium Secure Adolescent Inpatient Facility TVA Architects

2017-02-03 17:00

 © Charles Chestnut

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架构师提供的文本描述。这座基础建筑为患有严重行为和心理健康问题的青少年提供了一个单层住院诊所的私人床位、治疗空间和教室。坐落在科瓦利斯附近的儿童农场之家，这是客户的第一栋专门为更高视力的客户设计的建筑，因为校园最初是一所孤儿院。农家最初的“农舍”不太适合这种急迫的人口所带来的安全和保安问题，因此建立一个新的设施是头等大事。

Text description provided by the architects. This ground-up building provides private beds, therapy spaces, and classrooms in a single-story inpatient clinic for adolescents suffering from substantial behavioral and mental health issues. Sited at The Children’s Farm Home near Corvallis, the building is the client’s first building specifically designed for higher acuity clients, as the campus originally functioned as an orphanage. The original “cottages” at the Farm Home were not well-suited to the safety and security concerns posed by this acute population, so a new facility was top priority.

 © Charles Chestnut

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在设计过程开始时，在研究先例设施时，设计小组面临着一些黯淡的先例，一般只有混凝土砌块墙和机构性/矫正级固定装置和陈设。这座大楼的主要目的是建立一个设施，与这些先例项目的表现和安全相匹配，但也要创造一种温暖、欢迎和休养的气氛，既尊重病人的尊严，又吸引十几岁的客户。

In studying precedent facilities at the outset of the design process, the design team was faced with some bleak precedents, generally consisting of little more than concrete block walls and institutional/correctional grade fixtures and furnishings. The brief for this building was to create a facility that would match the performance and safety of those precedent projects but to also create a warm, welcoming, recuperative atmosphere that respects the dignity of the patient while appealing to a teenage clientele.

 © Charles Chestnut

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这座建筑将与现有的农场住宅设施相结合，成为最终将成为一个完全安全的校园四合院的第一座新建筑。在这个四合院内，大部分的安全围护都是由建筑物而不是栅栏提供的。我们仔细考虑了现有的橡木、红木和红杉树，以便将新建筑与现有场地无缝地结合起来，并维护所有现有的实木。

The building is sited to integrate with the existing Farm Home facilities, becoming the first new building of what will eventually become a fully secure campus quad. Within this quad, the majority of secure enclosure are provided by buildings rather than fences. Careful consideration was given to existing oak, redwood, and sequoia trees to seamlessly integrate the new construction with the existing site and maintain all existing substantial trees.

在整个设计过程中，工作人员、病人和设施团体都参与进来，以帮助设想和确定一座满足青年身心需要的建筑，同时确保工作人员的安全和运作效率。建筑细节和产品选择是设计安全环境的关键，设计团队致力于以一种不会让人感到压抑的方式整合机构级的设备和硬件。透过天窗和神职人员窗户的视野被广泛使用，将病人与自然联系在一起，同时尽量减少在较低水平的玻璃所固有的潜在损害和安全问题。(鼓掌)

Staff, patients, and facilities groups were engaged throughout the design process to help envision and define a building that met physical and emotional needs of the youth while keeping staff safe and operations efficient. Construction details and product selections were vital in designing a secure environment, and the design team worked to integrate institutional-grade fixtures and hardware in a manner that would not feel oppressive. Views through skylights and clerestory windows are used extensively, connecting patients with nature while minimizing the potential damage and safety issues inherent with glazing at lower levels.

 © Charles Chestnut

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通过敏锐(或激动程度)将患者群体隔离开来的能力，推动了对灵活性和空间冗余的要求，这成为设施设计的核心。使用可操作的隔间和八张床的吊舱，可以将单元缩小为四张床的单元，有自己的“客厅”，或者让所有16名病人都可以占用一间“日间”。这种可伸缩性对于应对各种各样的情况和客户是至关重要的，这些情况和客户每天都会发生变化。该布局还鼓励工作人员与病人一起外出，为积极的工作人员/病人互动提供机会。

The ability to separate populations of patients by acuity (or level of agitation) drove a requirement for flexibility and space redundancy that became central to the facility design. The use of operable partitions and eight-bed pods allows units to be scaled down to four-bed units with their own “living room,” or left open where all 16 patients can occupy one “day room.” This kind of scalability is crucial in responding to myriad situations and clientele, which can change on a daily basis. The layout also encourages staff to be out with the patients, offering opportunity for positive staff/patient interactions.

该建筑旨在将一流的精神卫生设施的质量与传统的乡土形式相结合，承认农村的地理位置，并提供居住象征意义。公共区域、工作人员区和教室在两个封闭的、安全的庭院周围连接睡舱。外型调色板是现代的农场之家的审美，与丰富的雪松壁板，温暖的金属覆层，和明亮的口音颜色。

The building is intended to blend the qualities of a first class mental health facility with traditional vernacular forms, acknowledging the rural location and providing residential symbolism. Common areas, staff areas, and classrooms join the sleeping pods around two enclosed, secure courtyards. The exterior palette is a modern play on the Farm Home aesthetic, with rich cedar siding, warm metallic cladding, and bright accent colors.