Client: Hartford Hospital Cancer Institute Hospital
Location: New Britain, CT, United States
Completion date: 2015
Artwork budget: $6,000
Project Team
Artist
Charyl Weissbach
Client
Hartford Hospital
Art Consultant
Art3Gallery Consulting Services
Interior Designer
Robert Humenn, AIA
Interior Designer
Kirsten Waltz, AIA, ACHA, EDAC, LEED AP
Other
Chris Waltz, AIA, LEED AP, BD+C
Other
Diane Verdi, associate AIA, LEED AP, BD+C
Overview
Paintings by Charyl Weissbach: 15″ x 15″ each Encaustic and 23K gold leaf on Belgian Linen on panel
Goals
Natural materials such as stone and wood combined with curving, organic forms to blend the exterior and interior, reinforcing the connection with nature.
Process
The Hartford HealthCare Cancer Institute, based on a patient-focused care model, created a nurturing and healing environment. It includes a 67,000-square-foot cancer center and 75,000-square-foot medical office building (MOB). The design speaks to the site’s history, a former rock quarry, with a stone façade and a large, granite fireplace in the lobby welcoming patients. Light floods the two-story atrium through south-facing glass surrounded by artwork. The lobby runs south to north, connecting the cancer center to the east and the MOB to the west.