Bloom Children's Health Center

Pediatric Hospital

architecture
Capstone
3D RENDERING
Research
Larrisa Costa
Bloom Children’s Health Center reimagines pediatric care within Philadelphia’s urban landscape through a compact, connected, and welcoming facility for patients, families, and medical trainees. By bridging fragmented services, this integrated healthcare and learning center seamlessly unites pediatric treatment, medical education, and biophilic community spaces into a vibrant, child-centered healing environment.
Modern multi-story building with a wider blue-tinted lower section featuring balconies and a taller upper section with a wavy, white façade, surrounded by trees and a few people walking on sidewalks in an urban setting.
Design presentation board for Bloom Children's Health Center showing project intent, location, zoning, historic context, design goals, and precedent studies. Project intent includes six concepts: vertical care, heal and learn, urban connection, welcoming public realm, healing environment, and landmark identity with related icons and a hospital concept illustration. Project location maps highlight Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Zoning requirements detail RMX-3 mixed residential zone with diagrams. Site historic context features a black-and-white photo of the Greek Revival building and evolution timeline. Design goals focus on connection to city, human scale, and no obstacle with architectural sketches. Precedent studies show images and descriptions of three hospital projects from Singapore, Canada, and Chicago, with floor plans and architectural visuals.Architectural presentation board showing a pediatric healthcare building named Bloom with a facade concept, material studies, and a mass timber structural system. Includes renderings of the building exterior with a modern facade, diagrams of urban grid identity, rainscreen facade system components, and detailed timber structure illustrations. Also displays occupancy classification and construction project data.Architecture diagram and sketches showing massing evolution and iterations of a building project in three phases. Top section illustrates conceptual sketches and 3D block iterations of a stacked structure with curved forms and horizontal layers. The middle section has hand-drawn sketches indicating a hospital and medical school. The bottom section displays physical model photos and digital renderings demonstrating design changes progressing through five stages: base podium, carved voids for light and healing pockets, elevated connector lifting upper mass, curved tower defining vertical identity, and green terraces with planting for healing gardens and biophilic layers.

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