Tabor Dermatology Clinic

This new multi-tenant commercial development includes a 3,800 sf dermatology office while also providing an additional 1,380 sf of tenant build-out space for a future business. Designed with both functionality and aesthetics in mind, the building features a timeless architectural palette that blends seamlessly into the surrounding context. The combination of painted brick, fiber cement siding, and expansive glazing creates a modern yet inviting façade that sets the stage for a premier healthcare practice. The building program required a welcoming and spacious lobby, centralized nurse’s station, lab, doctor’s office, treatment rooms equipped with the latest technology, and a spa treatment wing designed to promote relaxation and rejuvenation.

Neurocovery Medical Facility

The Neurocovery facility’s design responds to the client’s desire to create a space conducive for a wide variety of rehabilitation services. The building takes on a multi-purpose role, with all spaces within as opportunities for healing. Patients are offered clinical services along with sound therapy and a wide range of physical therapy with all provisions required for an outpatient visit. A private outdoor space further enhances the patient experience and promotes another opportunity for healing. The exterior material palette consists of a variety of metal panel types, plaster, and glass, creating a simple, yet a timeless contemporary look.

Forshag Pharmacy

A well-established pharmacy business in the small town of Franklinton, Louisiana was looking to upgrade its facility with a striking new 5400 sf building. Despite being designed within a modest budget and utilizing an economic material palette, the new building is eye-catching and inviting to passersby. The facility incorporates several supporting functions which provide a harmony of wellness services for its small community. These include a coffee shop, a small wellness clinic, specialized clean rooms for compounding and IV infusion prep, a “closed door” pharmacy that serves long-term care facilities, and a retail pharmacy with over-the-counter and prescription medications. These spaces are all contained within a clear-span space created with exposed wood pre-engineered trusses. Clearstory windows provide an abundance of filtered natural light for its occupants. The building has become a landmark within its community.

North Oaks Rehabilitation Center Renovation

This project was a renovation and addition to an existing rehabilitation center in Hammond, La. The project provides a new facade intervention to an existing, acquired facility aiding in corporate branding by referencing the color, detailing, and forms of the Hospital’s main campus architecture. The wall also serves as a clarification of entry points, a desperately needed element before renovation. The projects consist of an expanded and renovated lobby, dining and kitchen spaces, and renovated offices, gym, and patient rooms. The branding wall allows the existing building to protrude at one location and signals the location of the dining addition and the recessed courtyard dining beyond. Openings in the wall vary in height and detail as a response to secondary entries while intermittently revealing the covered walkway. The canopy and pylon signal the main entrance. The wall creates an outdoor concourse across the building’s face incorporating a continuous covered walkway. The outdoor dining courtyard space is buffered from parking by a band of landscape and moving water. The sound of water provides a soothing environment for rehabilitation patients and a white noise barrier to the parking lot. Interior and exterior dining boundaries are blurred through the use of color and the transparency of the continuous storefront. Colors and finishes within the main lobby were selected to evoke a sense of calm upon arrival to the rehabilitation center. The design strives to aid in the healing process. The chapel, a previously non-existent space within the facility, is a small space designed for inner reflection and contemplation during the healing process.

Ochsner Kenner New ICU – Adaptive Reuse

Faced with an immediate demand to expand ICU-room capacity in the existing hospital – an abandoned 5th floor medical/surgical patient room wing was considered as the only alternative to address this challenge. Working collaboratively with the Hospital, Facility Management Team, User Group, and Contractor, the Design Team was able to identify the project obstacles and constraints and provide opportunities and solutions as to how the conversion could be accomplished. The result was a new 13,000 sq. ft. ICU Department which provided 16 new ICU rooms. Each room provided new area allocations in conformance with regulatory requirements, as well as a new family zone / private restroom and shower accommodations. Overall departmental enhancements included a new nurse station and teaming work room, isolation rooms, bariatric rooms, medication rooms, and support spaces. Patient care and experiences were enhanced with amber lighting to promote natural circadian rhythms and copper-infused linens to minimize the possibility of infection. Patient monitoring and care were conducted through E-ICU, which allowed for an off-campus collection of doctors to serve numerous patients throughout the collection of various facilities.

Affordable Smiles Hammond

The project utilized a 4,020 sq. ft. retail tenant space within an existing strip-center metal building in a transformative way to create a new comprehensive care dental clinic. The exterior façade was completely restored and renovated to provide a fresh look that met the clinic’s brand standards cost-effectively. The existing building envelope contained numerous problems with water intrusion and deterioration. The design team provided a completely new waterproofing system while repairing and replacing a majority of the stucco and sheathing.

Additionally, a new LED-backlit rainscreen system was installed in strategic locations to complete the transformation. The interior design was a collaboration with the owner’s interior designers. The focus of the interiors was on brand imaging, surface durability, and way-finding. H/S Architects was part of a design-build team with Regal Construction from Laplace, La. for the renovation.

Ochsner Pediatrics – Infusion Suite

The Ochsner Pediatrics Infusion Suite was a complete overhaul of the area initially constructed in 2002, located in the Comprehensive Pediatrics Clinic of Ochsner’s Main Campus. The original outdated design consisted of large uncomfortable, monotone bulky furniture components complemented by antiquated CRT Television Units suspended from the ceiling.

The new design demonstrates a colorful rejuvenation of the space that embraces the facility’s Aquatic theme, minimizes medical clutter, and introduces brilliant and vibrant colored materials and furniture selections. Each pediatric infusion station is provided with a personally controlled flat screen monitor for family and sibling video viewing opportunities.

Additionally, patients are provided personal computer devices (iPads) for internet browsing and Bluetooth connections to the viewing monitor. Images of patient portraits and artwork are circulated on screens when not in use, which provides a continuous re-animation of the space.

Due to the use of this space, shutdown time for construction had to be minimized. The design team worked in conjunction with the Contractor to have all components fabricated off-site and installed simultaneously. Demolition to Completion was 35 days.

Urology Clinic For Dr. Joy Nielsen

The client needed a facility for a growing practice housed in an aging medical office plaza. Patients receiving care at the facility required a concept of separate programmatic spaces. These spaces had to allow for relaxation while waiting, “decompression” for preparation, and private consultation. The building’s program provides opportunities to enhance patient comfort by separating the more public waiting areas from the inherently stressful exam and procedures rooms. The porte-cochere creates a welcoming approach to the facility. Overhangs provide solar protection on the south side, while the higher eave height on the North allows for larger windows. Brick and asphalt shingles tie the building into the surrounding complex, while horizontally installed copper-colored corrugated metal panels add a new texture to the developing doctor’s boulevard. Special care was taken in developing volume and materials to maintain the client’s preference for contemporary materials while eliminating the harsh environment often found in doctor’s waiting rooms.

South Tangipahoa Parish Health Center

The 28,000 sq. ft. building serves as a rural and urban public health facility for Southern Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. The design concept utilizes an efficient centralized plan that offers a clear sequence of movement to deliver medical services. The materials are inviting and pleasant while at the same time durable and maintenance-free. The building creates a dignified health care environment supportive of the needs of the community.

Ponchatoula Drugs

Looking for a new location and a dynamic image, the client wanted to improve visibility, public image, and sales while standing out from his “big box” competitors. Located in Ponchatoula, Louisiana, the site is surrounded by a developing suburban retail environment of parking lots and mundane strip malls. The site’s inherent significance along a highly traveled roadway was utilized by developing a structure that, both in form and material, takes hold of its surroundings and announces its presence. While creating this presence, the building also allows for customer conveniences of drive-through, pick-up, and drop-off of prescriptions. Unlike the competitor’s generic sterility, a pleasant environment is found inside with the pharmacy’s simple footprint and large naturally lit volume, adding to the shopper’s experience and comfort.

K-9 Rehabilitation Clinic

H/S designed the primary boarding and rehabilitation facilities for the Animal Health Clinic in Covington, La. The clinic is equipped to provide complete veterinary and surgical medical care for canines and cats from pre-natal care through the geriatric stage of a pet’s life. New treatments and new technologies are utilized to deliver quality care and comfort in a safe and secure environment. Some of the clinic’s services are radiology, preventive medicine, ultrasound, in-house laboratory, surgery, dental care, dental radiology, geriatric care, canine rehabilitation, therapeutic laser, and weight management. The boarding area contains 24 kennel runs, each with a view of the rehab pool and surrounding gardens. It also includes six luxury suites that are a little larger for clients who want an extra level of care for their pets. All quarters are climate-controlled environments with sound baffles.

Internal Medicine Clinic

The Internal Medicine Clinic of Tangipahoa provided a new facility for 11 physicians and their expanding base of patients. The interior space planning evolved around establishing an interior spine, along which all of the primary, secondary, and tertiary spaces are distributed. This spinal concept allowed for a more effective method of wayfinding. The design permitted efficiency to increase by providing individual waiting areas and more exam rooms for each physician, which improved patient satisfaction.

A large overhang announces the main entry while creating a covered vehicle drop-off and a solar shading device. Exposed wood timbers are accented by strategic up-lighting. A rhythmic facade can be seen from the street created by concrete pilasters, glu-laminated beams, and columns. The building’s primary materials include split and ground face masonry, metal wall and roof panels, glass curtain walls, concrete, and glu-laminated wood columns and beams. As a response to solar orientation, fenestration was limited on the east & west facades. Each doctor’s office is given a view into a green space. The facility’s internal spine is the main path of travel for all visitors.

For way finding purposes, each of the four sub-waiting areas is identified by a different color scheme. The clerestory monitors located at each sub-waiting area allow natural light to illuminate the interior spaces and provide a rhythmic change in spatial volume, which corresponds to the program’s key areas. The use of wood and warm finishes provide a comfortable environment for patients and visitors. The custom millwork is user-friendly and easily identifies different points of interaction within the lobby. The volume of the space enhances the main waiting areas. The large expanses of glazing allow adequate natural light to filter through, while the large overhang is calculated to block most of the direct sun.

Hammond Cardiology Clinic

The Hammond Cardiology Clinic is located within the Strawberry Farms Professional Plaza in Hammond, Louisiana. The 8,000 sq. ft. clinic includes eight exam rooms for four physicians. These exam rooms surround the centralized nurses’ station. Also included is a triage room, Vascular lab, Echo lab, Holter testing, Pacer monitoring, and Stress lab. A large porte-cochere extending from the all-glass entry provides an inviting signature identifying element for the clinic. The exterior articulation, craftsman brick detailing, and butt glazed corner windows are continued within the interior at the main reception interface and the centralized nursing station.

Dutchtown Drugs

This project was a new location for a pharmacist looking to improve visibility, public image, and sales while standing out from his “big box” competitors. Located in Dutchtown, Louisiana, the site is surrounded by a developing suburban retail environment of parking lots and mundane strip malls.

Not wanting to fall victim to the mass generic architecture of the “big box,” the client was looking for a dynamic image. The site’s inherent significance along a highly traveled roadway was utilized by developing a structure that, both in form and material, takes hold of its surroundings and announces its presence. While creating this presence, the building also allows for customer conveniences of drive-through pick-up and drop-off of prescriptions. Unlike the competitor’s generic sterility, a pleasant environment is found inside, with the pharmacy’s simple footprint and large naturally lit volume adding to the shopper’s experience and comfort.

Channell Drugstore

Our goal for this project was to improve visibility and public image for a local community pharmacy. We strived to achieve a strong presence for this small business through the use of dynamic building form. The form of the building reflects a fresh image in the community. It also promotes the expansion of the business by incorporating drive-thru windows for added customer convenience and accessibility. The high, Southern facing windows allow for an abundance of natural light to penetrate the interior without sacrificing valuable shelving space. The roof overhang, with angled brackets, provides solar protection while adding to the overall design aesthetic.

A rectangular footprint was chosen to maximize economy and efficiency; however, complexity was added to the program by manipulating interior spaces as they are hidden and revealed. Visual elements such as an exposed truss frame and ductwork, stained concrete, corrugated metal, and pendant-mounted fixtures create a distinct departure from the typical “big-box” pharmacy.

A diverse palette of materials, including angled timber braces, painted cement board siding, anodized aluminum windows, and corrugated metal panels, creates a dynamic composition of contrasting colors and textures. The curved gull-wing roof’s sweeping profile gives this small building its most distinctive feature, setting this local pharmacy apart from its nearby competition.