Board tweaks hospital design for Mount Pleasant, SC
Mount Pleasant - The Design Review Board said the plan for the new East Cooper Hospital "just wasn't Lowcountry enough."
Architects and engineers from the project had gone to the Mount Pleasants board's monthly meeting Wednesday to hear feedback about the design from the board and from Mount Pleasant staff. A few structural changes will be made to accommodate a Mount Pleasant feel to the proposed design.
"The challenge is that it doesn't become like a shopping center for health services, but the town's hospital," said design Mount Pleasants board member Sam Herin.
Design board officials said that it was important to develop a street system that was appropriate to the town and to use building materials that would complement other Mount Pleasant buildings. They also said the grid-like design was too contemporary. "It seems very corporate," Herin said.
The future Mount Pleasant, SC hospital will be on Mathis Ferry Road, between Von Kolnitz Road and Interstate 526. The 55-acre complex will eventually will have a 250-bed hospital, 220,000 square feet of medical office space, and two specialty hospitals in the area.
The proposed hospital would be 74 feet tall, one of the Mount Pleasant's tallest buildings.
"Any building of this scale is foreign to Mount Pleasant, and that will be the challenge you have as architects to make this work," Herin said.
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