Design Assistance
Baptist Hospital Campus, Pensacola
Baptist Hospital Campus, Pensacola
The new $636 Million Baptist Hospital Campus provides a 264-bed hospital as well as a health center that offers multi-specialty services such as oncology, cardiology, outpatient imaging, and more. The campus is the largest and most expensive healthcare facility ever built in Northwest Florida.
The hospital campus spans 57 acres and offers plenty of land for future growth. Centered around a park-like environment, the new campus features native vegetation and includes a 10-story main hospital, a 178,000-square-foot, six-story Bear Family Foundation Health Center, and a 23,000-square-foot central energy plant.
GATE Precast collaborated with Gresham Smith and Brasfield & Gorrie to meet the demands of a compressed schedule offering multiple façade types and architectural finishes that complement the overall design that blends the architecture and interior design seamlessly together with materials like terracotta, wood, bronze, and terrazzo. Also discussed was the owner's desire for the new campus's design to be resilient and sustainable, have improved operational efficiency, and provide an enhanced human experience. Ultimately, the design team chose GateLite, GATE's thin architectural façade system. GateLite provides a building envelope that is finished and unitized with structural glazing and insulation for a complete thermal, vapor, and air barrier. It reduces enclosure time and jobsite disruption by eliminating traditional trades from the site. These sustainable attributes made GateLite the best choice to achieve the design team's goals for the new facility.
Inspired by wind-swept sand ripples, shifting clouds, and natural light filtration, the overall precast façade features simulated terracotta accents and a GateStone finish, which creates varying shades of color and a random appearance within the panels, lending depth and providing a timeless appearance. The main hospital and health center towers feature GateLite while the podiums for each tower are clad with 6” traditional architectural precast panels. The central energy plant's panels were pre-insulated to ensure further efficiency.
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LOCATION
Pensacola, FL
ARCHITECT
Gresham Smith