Bracing for the Cold

摘要

Known as "the top of the world," the isolated community of Barrow, Alaska, is located 340 miles north of the Arctic Circle in a snowbound arctic desert. It is also home to the Samuel Sim-monds Memorial Hospital, a new 103,000-square-foot critical access hospital designed to provide a full range of premium health care services to Barrow and five outlying villages along the northern coastline. RIM Architects, based out of Anchorage, Alaska, partnered with HDR Inc., Lawrencev-ille, N.J., to deliver the architectural design. Our joint mission: to create a one-of-a kind facility as a place of care, healing and wellness, while developing a shared environment that embraces and reflects the local Inupiat culture and its surroundings.