Our firm served as lead architect for this 80,000 square foot health care and higher education facility, completed in 2007.  We partnered with Freeman/White, a Charlotte, NC firm specializing in healthcare design.  Freeman/White provided design and programming consultation in the schematic design and design development phases, with our firm producing construction documents and performing construction administration services, as well as designing furniture and signage.

The project site was formerly Marshall University’s football stadium.  This presented a unique challenge due to the elevation change from ‘field level’ to ‘street level.’    The first floor of the building is academic space used by Marshall’s Joan C. Edward’s School of Medicine.  This floor is accessed from the field level.  The academic spaces include a tiered classroom with a state-of-the-art audio-visual system, a clinical skills lab and reading room.  The upper three floors are clinical space, accessed from the main patient entry at the street level.  Also in the project scope was a post-tensioned concrete parking deck for patient parking.

The building utilizes soft earth tones, coordinated furnishings and warm lighting to create a comfortable atmosphere for its inhabitants.  The large exam rooms, acoustic control and centrally located nurse stations create a functional and pleasant environment for clinical practice.

Our firm worked in conjunction with Marshall University, Sodexo Food Services, and Starbucks Coffee to create an interior community environment for the university’s Student Center.  This was a multiple-stage retail and food service project, with the requirement that each renovated area not impact the function of the others while under construction. New vendors were introduced to completely revamp the food service offerings. The dining area was refreshed with new finishes, and ETA’s interior design team provided furniture selection and procurement services. The end product seamlessly ties together the retail themes to create an inviting space to dine, converse, or study.

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The initial project in 2003 consisted of the renovation of the social hall and kitchen of this church, while transforming an adjacent 30’ x 200’ lot into a memorial garden and playground. The need for an accessible entrance to the sanctuary was subtly accomplished by weaving a ramp into the garden’s design and enlivens the space visually and functionally by connecting to the social hall as well. Through improved lighting and completely new interiors, the social hall is now a warm, welcoming and brighter space. The playground serves the church’s daycare in a secure environment within its urban context.

Years later in 2013, the congregation brought us back to design renovations to the interior of the sanctuary, as well as restore and re-lamp the existing light fixtures.  All existing fixtures were replaced with energy-efficient LED lamps, which significantly reduced energy and maintenance costs, while improving the quality of light in the space.  We also coordinated energy rebates through American Electric Power, helping to offset some of the cost of the fixture upgrades.