Building an ambulatory care center on a busy block in Brooklyn involves dealing with a myriad zoning issues, according to a blog on the Array Architects website.
New York has zoning resolutions which often differ from one neighborhood to the next or overlap and intertwine.
One thing nearly all zoning laws have in common is the arduous processes involved in wading through the text to find applicable provisions for each project, the article said.
After studying the zoning laws, the design team succeeded in designing a contemporary structure with no design elements compromised and requiring no code variances.
Building Around Care: Lessons in Modernizing Active Healthcare Environments
St. Luke's Heart Hospital Opens at Anderson Campus in Pennsylvania
WindRose Health Network Ensnared in Vendor Data Breach
How Efficiency Checklists Help Hospitals Save Energy, Water and Money
Intermountain Healthcare Receives $50M Gift for Standalone Children's Hospital