Hill Country Health and Wellness Center
Hill Country Health and Wellness Center is in Round Mountain, California. Its purpose is to serve its communities’ need for health and safety. The clinic’s aspirations date to 1982 when a group of friends got together to plan a clinic for residents for the rural town of Round Mountain and surrounding communities. (CHF, 2010)
Hill Country began their expansion in early 2009. The expansion tripled the clinic capacity and helped to realize a long-held dream to serve as a community anchor as well as a major health care provider. The expansion increased the clinic space from 8,000 to 20,500 square feet. They expanded the medical, dental, and behavioral health areas and added new community spaces such as a commercial kitchen/cafe, library, classroom, a large multipurpose room and more. The award-winning architecture firm, Trilogy Architecture, was tasked with the design of the expansion. Some materials used for this clinic was nontoxic paint, recycled flooring, a vast solar array, and a rainwater catchment system. The architect, James Theimer, had a bigger and greener vision for this expansion. The board of directors for Hill Country wanted the building to be a LEED-certified building. The new clinic had a statement-making color palette, enough storage space, places to meet colleagues for lunch, a library with computers and internet access, outdoor courtyard for activities, children's play area, and a swimming pool. Many building elements were used for a “healing focused design” (CHF, 2010). A large atrium was built to welcome their guests with natural lighting. Warm and cool colors were used to balance emotional effect. Cooler colors kept the tone calm in the behavioral health areas and the warmers colors kept the energy high in conferences rooms and corridors. Lighting was used in the grand atrium and skylights to help bring daylight into the center on the building. Materials such as flooring, baseboards, and chair rails all have a mixture of texture to give dimension.
REFERENCES
California Healthcare Foundation (June 2010) Retrieved https://www.chcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/PDF-OutsideBoxCaseStudiesClinicDesign.pdf
Hill County Health and Wellness Center, Retrieved https://www.hillcountryclinic.org/about-us/
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