By Healthcare Facilities Today

Stacking separate health facilities with a shared common space in between, results in collisions that encourage collaboration, according to an article in Buildings magazine's website.

The 476,000-square-foot center, owned by the Kaleida Health system, stacks the Clinical and Translational Research Center (affiliated with SUNY at Buffalo) on top of the Gates Vascular Institute. 

The result: a 10-story “vertical campus” that ties together advanced research with state-of-the-art medicine in neurovascular, cardiovascular, peripheral vascular, and electrophysiological disciplines, according to the article.

Between the clinical and research centers lies the two-level collaborative core, which links medicine with research in a way that forces interaction, the article said. Touchdown and conference spaces are integrated alongside procedural labs to push researchers into clinical areas, while the cafe and a collaborative area are placed on a research level to attract clinicians and encourage the exchange of ideas.

Read the article.