A Quiet Place.

BUILDING TYPE STUDY 1,019 HEALTH CARE THE TERM "psych ward" may be obsolete, but mental-health institutions are notorious for being grim environments. "We didn't want it to feel like an archetypical hospital experience, with a corridor that runs on forever and no natural light", says architect Tim Morshead, partner at San Francisco - based WRNS Studio. The first-level inpatient unit is the more complicated part of the building: it is organized around three internal courtyards and divided into four "neighborhoods" that can expand or contract depending on the type of patients at any time, giving the hospital more flexibility. [Extracted from the article]