AdventHealth Castle Rock Neighborhood Health Clinic

PROJECT NARRATIVE

For the community surrounding AdventHealth Castle Rock Hospital, this 10,000-square-foot ground-up neighborhood health center is designed to be an anchor, a place to access primary care without a trip to a full hospital campus. The building holds two tenants under one AdventHealth-owned roof: a primary care clinic serving as that community anchor, and a third of the floor plan operated by On Point Urgent Care as an independent partnership. Inside, the clinic's plan prioritizes efficiency, organized around a centralized group pod with the nursing team at its core, and includes a dedicated behavioral health room built for low-acuity visits.

The site itself, flanked by a gas station and a fast-food drive-thru, gave the design team a clear brief: elevate the plot. The response is a lobby that leans into AdventHealth's more elevated, stone-forward architectural language, with a bold, popped-out entry volume, sculptural acoustic baffles, and a series of alcoves that bring texture and scale to the space. It was one of the first built expressions of AdventHealth's newly developed interior finishes standards—a client-forward palette and materiality developed in close partnership with the health system—and set the tone for how the brand could show up in a primary care setting.

The project also reflects the adaptability built into good healthcare planning. The clinic's floor plan was originally designed to mirror itself, with space held for a future expansion of primary care on the building's opposite half. When AdventHealth shifted strategy and partnered with an urgent care operator instead, that same efficient plan was repurposed to bring the second tenant on board—turning a placeholder for future growth into an active partnership on day one.