Sierra Surgery and Imaging
1400 Medical Parkway
Carson City, Nevada 89701

Project Description

The views from the site are breathtaking and the setting is quite stunning. Located within the Eagle Valley Creek riparian corridor at the base of the Eastern Sierras, the Sierra Surgery & Imaging Facility, a small but integral part of the greater Carson-Tahoe Regional Medical Complex, establishes the standard for an environmentally sensitive campus design. The Client’s goal was to design an integrated site that would intertwine the clean modern lines of the Facility and the surrounding natural environment throughout the site landscape and provide visitors with attractive and comforting outdoor spaces in which to gather, seek refuge or convalesce. The Client’s objectives and vision were accomplished by creating spaces using linear and organic forms, careful selection of materials types and color and a seasonally diverse native plant palette.

Upon arrival visitors are greeted by a paved entry plaza that provides a number of functional seating and gathering opportunities and offers visual cues to the connection between the patient check-in and discharge areas. Smaller, more intimate seating areas have been provided to accommodate individuals waiting for family members or friends receiving outpatient treatments. Future expansion areas around the Facility have received a simple organic landscape treatment with meandering paths, gentle mounds and native plantings to allow for ease of future facility growth. A small staff courtyard is sited behind the main building and provides privacy with low, integrally colored concrete screen walls while still affording sweeping views of the adjacent foothills and riparian corridor. Future development will include pedestrian paths to the main campus, enhancements to the riparian/wetland corridor and a sensory/healing garden enclosed by two extended stay patient wings.