New Facilities Add Behavioral Health, Multi-Disciplinary Services to Mountain View Community

Located in Mountain View, California, El Camino Health’s new Taube Pavilion accommodates both inpatients and outpatients, and El Camino Hospital’s Sobrato Pavilion replaces the “North Addition” of the hospital with a multi-disciplinary outpatient center and MOB.

The modern 55,000-square-foot, 36-bed Taube Pavilion and updated site create a safe and tranquil environment that provides quality treatment for patients experiencing acute mental health crisis. Designed by WRNS Studio and built by XL Construction, the Taube Pavilion is targeting LEED Gold for Healthcare.

Replacing an existing building, the behavioral health center creates a prominent and welcoming two-story glass form that will be easily recognizable within the park-like setting of El Camino Hospital. To maximize efficiency, the building is organized into care suites, which are more residential and hotel-like in character and offer access to daylight and nature, interesting materials and soothing colors to support therapeutic program goals.

The 230,000-square-foot, seven-story Sobrato Pavilion is organized to connect both visually and functionally to the existing main hospital, while creating a welcoming and easily identifiable western entry off the hospital. The project team included Rudolph and Sletten and WRNS Studio. The Sobrato Pavilion is targeting LEED Gold.

The IMOB stitches together existing architectural and landscape features from the area into a design that is clean, elegant and sympathetic to the park-like character of the campus. The pavilion borrows the material palette of the main hospital — colored concrete panels, warm gray metal mullions and clear glass — while adjusting the pattern of fenestration to a finer grain suitable for an office planning module. The resulting pattern of double-high bays creates a subtle but dynamic vertical texture catching the sunlight at different times of the day.

A new garage offering much-needed additional parking, is modestly clad in a warm gray metal scrim, and forms a quiet background element to the forested landscape foreground. The tower and garage are contained within a series of smaller volumes and site walls clad in a combination of zinc, brick and board-formed concrete. The use of these more richly textured natural materials aims to ground the larger building masses into the pedestrian-scaled realm of sidewalk and landscape.