Elegant Solutions
University of New Mexico Hospitals Children’s Psychiatric Center
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Complete
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Location
Albuquerque, NM
A safe and uplifting place to stabilize and start the recovery process
Davis Partnership Architects and McClain + Yu Architecture & Design are designing a replacement facility for the Children's Psychiatric Center in Albuquerque, which is currently spread across four buildings. This effort will provide caregivers and patients with a single 36-bed inpatient facility. It also accommodates a planned expansion to 52 beds.
The purpose of the Children’s Psychiatric Center is to provide inpatient, residential or partial hospitalization (day) behavioral health care for children and adolescents from ages five through seventeen. Developing a supportive interior and integrated exterior environment for children, adolescents and their families coping with behavioral health crisis with a safe and uplifting space to stabilize and start the recovery process.
The design incorporates trauma-informed design principles, such as:• Realizing how the physical environment effects an individual’s sense of identity, worth, dignity, and empowerment.
• Recognizing that the physical environment has an impact on attitude, mood, and behavior, and that there is a strong link between our physiological state, our emotional state, and the physical environment.
• Responding by designing and maintaining supportive and healing environments for trauma-experienced residents or clients to resist re-traumatization.
Project Scope
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Architecture
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Interior Design
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Lighting
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Wayfinding & Experiential
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Healthcare
