PHOTO TOUR: Novak Center for Children’s Health
Feinknoph Photography, Brad Feinknoph
Vistas of natural light carry through to the sub-waiting and checkout areas, where a leaf pattern guides families toward the elevators.
Feinknoph Photography, Brad Feinknoph
Warm tones of illuminated daylight shimmer through a birch tree-inspired forest wall in the family waiting area.
Feinknoph Photography, Brad Feinknoph
Sheltered beneath the limb of a tree is a cozy nook for youth to take respite with images of field and fowl.
Feinknoph Photography, Brad Feinknoph
Patients and guests are greeted in the main lobby by the River Birch forest.
Feinknoph Photography, Brad Feinknoph
The "forest" scales three floors.
Feinknoph Photography, Brad Feinknoph
The forest path and streams guide the patients and families to the exam rooms.
Feinknoph Photography, Brad Feinknoph
The forest path, streams, and falling leaf floor patterns continue through the clinic spaces to guide the patients to their destinations.
University of Louisville Physicians, Novak Center for Children’s Health was designed by EYP to reduce patient stress while in a medical center through integrated design of familiar landscapes in rural Kentucky. With color designated floors representing animals native to Kentucky, the 174,000-square-foot facility’s intuitive wayfinding creates an interactive journey of discovery for children. The center, which opened in summer 2018, focuses on the patient experience for specialties such as neurology, ophthalmology, hematology, and other collaborations. Using both organic and abstract shapes, the facility is universal in its design to allow for the diverse constitution of programs under one roof.
Facility name: University of Louisville Physicians, Novak Center for Children’s Health
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Completion date: Summer 2018
Owner: University of Louisville Real Estate, LLC; University of Louisville; University of Louisville Physicians
Total building area: 174,000 sq. ft.
Total construction cost: $79 million
Cost/sq. ft.: $462.00
Architects: EYP Architecture & Engineering: interior architect responsible for interior design, medical planning, wayfinding/environmental graphics, furniture selection and specification;
GBBN: exterior architect responsible for core and shell
General Contractor: Messer Construction Co.
Engineering: Uzun & Case
