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VA Omaha Hospital
2011 | NBBJ | Omaha, NE
Working primarily with Andy Snyder of NBBJ, a large portion of this summer internship is devoted to the schematic development of an entirely new hospital for the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
Every piece of this massive job - from it’s site strategy, it’s sculptural concourse, even each individual hospital wing - incorporates as many cues from the agrarian landscape surrounding Omaha, Nebraska as possible. Led by Brett Egbert, the site strategy takes advantage of it’s sloped landscape by becoming a riff on the severely manipulated, stepped fields of this rolling area of the U.S. The building’s relationship to the ground is then conceptually conceived of as rhythmically excavating/scraping away striated portions land in which to nestle the structure.
The wholistic building concept is simply a series of intricate, tubular hospital wings that physically plug into a linear concourse, anchored by two parking garages. Each wing then maintains a grounded base-middle-top relationship, resembling that of a stone-based barn.
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