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Health Professions Building
Austin Peay State University
A high-tech academic building supports future health leaders while promoting collaboration and learning on display.
Ayers Saint Gross, in collaboration with HASTINGS, designed the new Health Professions Building at Austin Peay State University to prepare the next generation of top health professionals in the region. The university’s largest academic building, the facility houses the School of Nursing and departments of Allied Health Sciences, Health and Human Performance, Psychological Science and Counseling, and Social Work.
The four-story building features instructional classrooms, labs, amenity spaces, simulation labs, and faculty and administration offices, and two clinics. The building’s program ensures each department has adequate classroom, simulation, clinical, laboratory, and collaboration spaces for their growing programs, while also capitalizing on shared and common resources.
The building’s design expresses the interior program through a series of cantilevered volumes reaching toward campus, while a transparent ground-level facade allows views to campus while connecting occupants to outdoor learning and gathering spaces.
Designed to educate practice-ready graduates, the Health Professions Building fosters collaborative, team-based learning. Incorporated simulation spaces create hands-on learning opportunities through realistic healthcare scenarios. Simulated inpatient and outpatient rooms, home care apartments, and consultation rooms enable students to build clinical skills in a welcoming and comfortable space. The simulations incorporate nursing, radiology, medical laboratory science, social work, and criminal justice, allowing each discipline to better understand their roles in the healthcare setting.
A student-led clinic offers care to the local community treating both adult and pediatric patients, while providing students with hands-on training to enhance their learning and clinical readiness.
A series of vibrant, open gathering areas offer students room to study independently or in groups, fostering community and a sense of welcome.
A series of tiered green roofs and outdoor gathering spaces promote sustainability and wellness.
“We are eager to fill the critical gaps in Tennessee’s healthcare workforce, and this new facility is pivotal in helping us do just that. With simulation labs, state-of-the-art technology, and interactive learning spaces, our graduates will be prepared to make a lasting impact on the health of our region.”
– Dr. Dlyn Williams, dean of the College of Behavioral and Health Sciences, Austin Peay State University
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