Ribbon cutting ceremony for Lake Charle's Memorial Health Hospital

We are excited to share the news for the completion of Lake Charle's Memorial Hospital's Behavioral Health Hospital. For this project, PDS experimented in new ways to create brick aesthetics and to break away from the traditional orthogonal use of this material. Below are several interior photos provided by our flooring company Patcraft.

Beautifully clean medical office designed by Pomarico Design Studio, featuring our Stratified+ and Aggregate Collections. Natural earthly striations throughout the floor, with motifs of clay, limestone, concrete and gem tones to create a calm atmosphere for health. Lake Charles Behavioral Health • John Clemmer Photography •

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From pencil sketches and watercolors to modern computer based renderings, architectural visualization has proven to be the keystone to client project comprehension. The ability to take two dimensional line work drawings and bring them into our three dimensional world creates a link between what is in the architects mind's eye and what the built project will look and feel like.

Architectural visualization seeks to strike a balance between the often criticized utopian ideal of a project and the realities of its surroundings by creating a series of image which tell the story of the space to clients and future users. This can be especially important in healthcare design where much of the functionality of the space takes place in the three dimensional plane. Where plans and elevations show the layout of a room in relation to the whole through a series of drawings, a rendering can show how the space feels in a single, easily comprehensible image.