Medical/Dental Clinic Replacement, Andersen Air Force Base, Guam
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Seeing that the existing Andersen clinic at was becoming inadequate for its base population and antiquated in its systems and code performance, the Pacific Division of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command selected SS&A to study their improvement choices. Through a charrette process, the SS&A team worked with the client to determine that the most appropriate response was to construct a totally new replacement for the clinic. Following this conclusion, SS&A was retained to supply architectural and engineering services for the facility.

Construction of the new building, located just west of the existing facility, will be phased to allow uninterrupted clinic service to the base's servicemen and women and their families. The new one-story building will connect to the recently constructed Flight Medicine Clinic to the southeast and to the existing Logistics building to the northeast. The facility centers upon a Barrel-vaulted entrance/waiting area flooded with natural light from clerestory windows. All areas of the clinic are conveniently located around this space, with all major patient areas visible to clinic visitors upon entry.

The exterior of the clinic is designed according to the latest anti-terrorism guidelines and is designed structurally to resist the severe weather common to the Pacific island. The massing of the building is ordered to provide hierarchical priority to entrance points, with vertical elements and exterior surface treatments helping to give rhythm to the more horizontal edifice. Exterior elements materials are in accord with surrounding Mission style architecture.

The medical and building systems are designed with flexibility as an utmost concern, to help ensure the new structure does not reach obsolescence as quickly as its predecessor.