+ Sharp Rees-Stealy Downtown Wellness Center
landLAB and avrp studios | San Diego, California+

LandLAB, AVRP Architects and Rudolph & Sletten Contractors were the winning design/build team for the new Sharp Medical Downtown Wellness Center. The landscape concept for the new Wellness Center is duality; duality of soft textures and crisp architectural lines, a historical site and progressive health care, of public open spaces and private healing gardens. The design of the new Wellness Center creates a welcoming health care facility with beautifully landscaped entryways and waiting areas, green walls and roofs, sustainable site features and healing garden spaces for staff, patients and visitors. Environmental design principles such as passive solar are integrated into the proposed design: vine covered greenscreen at the parking garage; vegetated green roofs to shade and cool the building; deciduous trees to shade pavement and architecture. Other sustainable measures are on-site management of storm water at green roofs and at-grade landscaped areas, urban heat-island reduction by shade structures, canopy trees and vegetated green roofs. Proposed plant species will be drought tolerant, non-invasive species with sensory or medicinal qualities