The new Dolan Nursing Program at John Carroll University will provide students with an immersive educational experience. The architecture seeks to navigate the desire for identification and legibility between spaces dedicated to the emergent nursing program while being dispersed within an existing campus building.

Within the program’s newly renovated spaces, students will learn from each other and engage with faculty through the interface of state-of-art nursing technology and equipment, showcasing patient care rooms that replicate real-life healthcare facilities. The new program comprises two Simulation Labs, supported by a control room and debriefing rooms, a ten-bed Nursing Skills Lab, ample storage and prep spaces, and an accompanying Faculty Suite.

The Simulation Suite, Skills Lab, and Faculty Suite share a material continuity, and provide a clean backdrop to the wide range of medical equipment provided to support student learning. Simple bold colors and materials streamline aesthetics across spaces, unifying the new nursing program within a single language; a fresh identity juxtaposed with the Dolan Science Center it sits within.

Dolan Nursing Labs

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