King Square Healthcare - Toronto | C& Partners Architects

The main challenge of this project was to find a way to connect the medical facility’s pharmacy and wellness retail located on the ground with its related medical clinics located on the third floor.

Creating a visual connection would allow patients and visitors to be conveniently directed from shopping and pharmacy on the first floor to the medical services offered on the third floor quickly navigating all different aspects of program within the clinic.

On the exterior, the design of the retail frontage as well as the location and the sizes of the entrances were carefully planned—together with the choices of materials—with the wayfinding system. The boundary of the retail space is permeable to the flow of the major corridors in the mall, blurring the division of the medical-related retail space and the surrounding retail units.

On the interior, the "flexible" rooms have been designed to afford for innovative, competitive and unpredictable healthcare services. The modules and sizes of the rooms have been designed to optimize flexibility in terms of use and future growth. Furthermore, the stoic elements that can’t be changed after building completion, such as the plumbing lines, have been carefully incorporated with the design in order to allow for future transformations.