The bright, optimistic feeling starts at the ground-level lobby, a light– filled glass-clad space that opens up to the city rather than seeming cramped or foreboding. ICRAVE’s primary role was the design of the third-floor waiting area, a fourteenth-floor area for staff, and, in collaboration with Perkins Eastman, the selection of finishes and furnishings for patient recovery suites and an area called the “oasis.” With only about a quarter of the building’s spaces dedicated to surgery, Ohayon notes that this is a hospitality project more than anything. “We needed to project optimism and comfort into the design,” says Lionel Ohayon, the founder and CEO of ICRAVE, which focused on the human experience and interior aesthetic for MSK. This needed to be a human-centered endeavor.” “We tried to think about the whole experience, for everyone. “There’s so much stress inherent to this type of facility,” says Suzen Heeley, Memorial Sloan Kettering executive director of design and construction. Together, the two firms worked with MSK to create spaces that are more hospitable and humane, and less institutional and clinical. MSK hired New York–based ICRAVE, a firm known for its hospitality expertise, to provide interior experiential design in collaboration with Perkins Eastman. And smart organization creates a combination of privacy, visual excitement, and, yes, calm.įor its Josie Robertson Surgery Center, MSK engaged Perkins Eastman to design the building as well as complete programming and planning. Furnishings and finishes- materials and surface treatments-are eye-catching, sophisticated, and diverse. Yet the interiors appear more like a hotel or high-end condominium. The 179,000-square-foot facility-comprising 16 floors clad primarily in glass with terracotta and stone at its base-contains 12 operating rooms and 28 private short-stay rooms, with enough capacity to perform 60 surgeries a day.
Is it possible to have a sense of calm when visiting a medical facility such as a cancer center? And can interior design enable calm for staff in such an environment? This was the design intent for the Memorial Sloan Kettering Josie Robertson Surgery Center on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center is focused on redefining the cancer care experience for patients, their loved ones, and care providers.
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