OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital Chapel and Pastoral Care Offices

Rogers Krajnak Architects designed the renovation of the Chapel and the adjacent Pastoral Care Offices at Riverside Methodist Hospital, scheduled to begin construction in August 2014.  The interfaith Chapel will accommodate approximately twenty people in addition to providing meditation areas for individuals.  The Pastoral Care Offices will be renovated to accommodate a new counseling room and waiting area.  These spaces will be integrated with the adjacent expanded hospital lobby that recently opened as part of the new Neuroscience Institute Tower on the Riverside Campus.

OhioHealth Riverside Hospital Chapel and Pastoral Care Offices

OhioHealth has commissioned Rogers Krajnak Architects to design the renovation of the Chapel and the adjacent Pastoral Care Offices at Riverside Methodist Hospital.  The interfaith Chapel will accommodate approximately twenty people in addition to providing meditation areas for individuals.  The Pastoral Care Offices will be renovated to accommodate a reception area adjacent to the Chapel, a small counseling room and additional office and group work areas.  These spaces will be integrated with the adjacent expanded hospital lobby that is currently being renovated as part of the new Neuroscience Institute Tower on the Riverside Campus.

OhioHealth Marion General Hospital Chapel Completed

OhioHealth's newest chapel has recently been completed. This project is the renovation of the existing chapel which was formerly a rooftop courtyard that was enclosed with a skylight. In order to minimize the existing heat gain and the glare caused by the harsh sunlight, a new skylight with frit glass panels that soften the daylight will be installed. Rogers Krajnak Architects designed a new “ceiling” as a series of parallel blade panels that will further diffuse and reflect the daylight. These translucent blade panels span across the width of the chapel and create a gentle arched form while still allowing visitors to see the sky above.
Visitors will enter the chapel from the main hospital corridor via a recessed entrance that includes illuminated glass wall panels that depict images of caregivers integrated with images of worship and prayer from six major religions of the world. These images help to convey that OhioHealth is a faith-based organization that, while rooted in the United Methodist heritage, is part of a larger interfaith community.

Project Rendering

OhioHealth Marion General Hospital Chapel Renovation

Construction progresses on OhioHealth Marion General Hospital Chapel Renovation. Read more about this project and view additional photos on our website:
http://www.rogerskrajnak.com/healthcare/2012/002-OhioHealth-Marion-General-Hospital-Chapel.htm

Chapel Rendering

OhioHealth Marion General Hospital Chapel Renovation

This project is the renovation of the existing chapel which was formerly a rooftop courtyard that was enclosed with a skylight.  In order to minimize the existing heat gain and the glare caused by the harsh sunlight, a new skylight with frit glass panels that soften the daylight will be installed.  Rogers Krajnak Architects designed a new “ceiling” as a series of parallel blade panels that will further diffuse and reflect the daylight.  These translucent blade panels span across the width of the chapel and create a gentle arched form while still allowing visitors to see the sky above.

Visitors will enter the chapel from the main hospital corridor via a recessed entrance that includes illuminated glass wall panels that depict images of caregivers integrated with images of worship and prayer from six major religions of the world.  These images help to convey that OhioHealth is a faith-based organization that, while rooted in the United Methodist heritage, is part of a larger interfaith community.

Chapel Rendering

Chapel Rendering

Chapel Entrance Door and Illuminated Glass Panels

Chapel Section showing glass wall

 

Chapel Floor Plan

OhioHealth Riverside Community Medicine Chapel Renovation

OhioHealth commissioned Rogers Krajnak Architects to provide a design study for the renovation of a chapel in a former hospice (the former Kobacker House facility) that was renovated into a community clinic.  The goal of the project was to provide for an uplifting, calming, light-filled, interfaith space that provides a place for quiet reflection, solitude and prayer.  The design for the renovated chapel included a new arched ceiling canopy that is supported on curved wood beams.  Suspended below the original chapel ceiling, the curved beams extend from the frame of the windows that provide views into the adjacent outdoor garden.  The ceiling canopy is comprised of illuminated translucent panels that contain the imagery of branches and leaves from an overhead tree.  The imagery of these tree branches is derived from the imagery of the pear trees in the windows that Rogers Krajnak Architects designed for the new Kobacker House Chapel.

Cutaway View from Entry

Looking from the chapel entry

Looking towards the chapel entry