University Hospitals - Seidman Cancer Center

Avon, Ohio

The new 38,000 square foot LEED Certified Medical Center Clinic is the latest addition to University Hospital’s medical campus in Avon, Ohio. The landscape design at the building established a palette of native and adaptive materials that brings color impacts to all four sides. In the front, a seating area with a floor of decorative pea gravel connects the beauty of the garden with a common waiting area inside—divided only by a sheer two-story curtainwall between. Flowing forms and attention paid to the ground plane make the gardens especially attractive from the building’s second floor, a design consideration that was important when taking into account views from doctors’ offices and waiting rooms throughout the building.

Along the drive and parking areas, visitors to the building are greeted by trees and understory landscape that draw from the palette established on the rest of the campus, merging this new building seamlessly into the existing site development.