Palomar Medical Center

Part of California’s largest public health district, this 175,000-square-foot facility (including a 60,000-square-foot green roof) sits on the new Palomar Medical Center West campus. Inspired by the center’s purpose of health and wellness, our vision was for the entire site to act as a therapeutic garden, providing restorative qualities for the patients and within the landscape itself. This concept of a “healing environment” would be an organic place of recuperation for patients as well as a model of sustainability in the larger environmental context. This balance of human and organic, nature and technology, became the guiding vision for all of Palomar West.