Patient healthcare delivery will be multidisciplinary and will provide care similar to the Mayo Clinic model.  Outpatient primary care registration, vitals, exam, and consultation follow-up scheduling will take place in the exam room.  The specialty providers and general providers will come to the exam room minimizing patient movement.

Departments and services include: emergency medicine, imaging, laboratory, pharmacy, minor surgery, inpatient unit, labor and delivery, primary and specialty care, mental health, podiatry, physical therapy, optometry, dental, and community health.

Associated Architectural Firm: Dyron Murphy Architects

Second (on a more emotional level), the vision was to create an inviting and uplifting-health spa/hospitality-like environment that would encourage wellness and hope in a language sensitive to New Mexico’s unique tri-cultural patient base. This concept drove the design of a network of public space (circulation and waiting areas) that engages the outdoors and connects patients and staff to the site’s unique nearby and distant surroundings.  Catering to the concept of nature’s healing qualities. Outdoor spaces offer themselves for quiet contemplation / meditation or group gatherings.  The penthouse of the facility is dedicated to chemotherapy patients, with full ‘window-wall’ glazing to the north that showcases spectacular views of the Sandia Mountains and surrounding environment. Patient areas (exam and treatment rooms) were designed to respond to the diversity of patients and their families. A design palate that emphasizes natural materials, abundant daylight, mountain views, and cultural references reinforces the concept and distances this facility from the stereotype of institutional healthcare.

Associated Architectural Firm: VOA Associates, Inc.

Renovations to the existing building include relocating the administrative offices to the school’s main entrance and moving wellness offices in their place, turning the existing science labs into visual art classrooms, and adding a mezzanine level to the existing cafeteria/gathering space that will house a media center.  A new concourse will connect the existing building to the new building, and lastly, a large, terraced garden area will be added where portables currently sit.  Monte del Sol brings gardening into almost all areas of academic curriculum and after-school programs.  This new garden area will allow them to expand this program and allow for an outdoor classroom immersed within the garden.

The roof overhangs also delineate the meeting place of the two wings, and act as both the main entrance to the building and an outdoor gathering space.  The art and music room is designed to be a celebrated space and so it deviates from the rest of the building with its large volume space, canted outer wall, and standing seam metal cladding.  An all glazed northeast façade opens out onto a covered outdoor stage and an amphitheater sunken into the site.

The plan organizes spaces around a linear high-bay, sloped roof space that arranges special program areas and faculty office pods in an ‘interactive zone.’  A continuous clerestory monitor caps this high-bay, providing a luminous common reference throughout the building. Daylight floods classrooms located on the building’s perimeter, from which students spill into the schoolhouse interior to connect with faculty in their offices, the technology reading room, and computer pods.  With emphasis on a broad dialogue, the Bosque School welcomes a variety of visitors – including parents, prospective students, college admissions representatives, and potential donors in its “reception/ living room.”   A central fireplace serving both the “living room” and a group study area emits a warm first impression of Bosque School and reinforces the spirit of community – a key component of the school’s mission.

Recipient of the 2009 AIA Albuquerque – Merit Award.