The Harbor-UCLA Medical Campus master plan creates a distinctive and cohesive campus setting that promotes collaboration between doctors, researchers, and the general public. The 72-acre master plan guides the hospital’s future expansion in a manner that collectively unifies various site and building programs, and ensures a vital public service for the community of South Los Angeles.
Utilizing a strong landscape framework and pedestrian circulation system, the landscape master plan provides a variety of open space courtyards, gardens, and plazas that collectively defines the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Serving as the ceremonial heart of the campus, the central garden plaza attracts staff and patients from surrounding outpatient, research and hospital buildings to relax and socialize within a lush garden setting.
With some of the most alarming health trends in the country, South Los Angeles is the perfect laboratory for a new campus prototype that focuses on preventative healthcare. Due to the lack of public open space in the community, and the close proximity to several elementary schools; the master plan focuses on encouraging exercise and healthy eating centered around a new park and community garden center.