Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Chicago, Illinois Health Facility, Architecture Photos
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Chicago
Rehabilitation Institute in Illinois, USA ? design by HDR | Gensler in Association with Clive Wilkinson Architects
Jul 20, 2018
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Chicago Building
Design: HDR | Gensler in Association with Clive Wilkinson Architects
Location: 355 E Erie Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Chicago Building
More often than not, new facilities are inspired by what has already been done. The Shirley Ryan AbilityLab upends that paradigm. By creating a facility that transforms the way science and care coexist, it?s reshaping the future of rehabilitation and accelerating the way discoveries are applied to advance human ability.
The Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (formerly Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago) is the No. 1 rehabilitation destination for adults and children with the most severe, complex conditions?from traumatic brain and spinal cord injury to stroke, amputation and cancer. The 1.2 million SF facility is the first-ever ?translational? research hospital where clinicians, scientists, innovators and technologists work together in shared, flexible spaces, surrounding patients, discovering new approaches and applying (or ?translating?) research in real time.

In fact, concepts integral to translational health drove planning and design. Here, research doesn?t just coexist with patient care; it?s integrated full-time into the clinical environment...