The new 38,000 square foot LEED Certified Medical Center Clinic will be 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 will bring color impacts to all four sides.
In the front, a seating area with a floor of decorative pea gravel will connect 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 will be 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.