We are excited to share the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine received a 2020 Southern California Development Forum design award.
The annual Southern California Development Forum Design Awards celebrate built and un-built project that demonstrate innovation and commitment from both owners and design teams to the local business environment and Southern California communities.
As one of the leading healthcare providers in the country, Kaiser Permanente has created a new School of Medicine to train the next generation of leaders in medicine. They turned to us to design this dynamic project.
Kaiser Permanente sought a school unfettered by the traditional pedagogy of academic medical centers, but also detached from typical campus amenities. This pushed the design team to reimagine the typology entirely. How does one envision, on a tight urban site, all the components needed for first-rate medical education?
The resulting design is an entire campus within a building. The 80,000 sf building houses simulation, flex classrooms, cafeteria, lecture hall, computer center, small group learning, collaboration zones, and outdoor recreation areas to create “the school of medicine as a laboratory.”
This approach redefines medical education, preparing a new generation of physicians to influence positive change within the Kaiser Permanente system and in hospitals, homes, schools, workplaces and communities at large.