Through thoughtful renovations and additions, this development aims to create a new, vibrant, campus-style community for people to gather, work, shop, and live.

The Boulder Western City Campus is an adaptive reuse of what formerly housed the Boulder Community Health Hospital. The 70-acre space will shape the redevelopment of the neighborhood and address the city’s challenge of decentralized offices. AE Design provides lighting design services for multiple reimagined interior and exterior spaces with sustainability and resilience in mind, targeting reduced LPD and Material Transparency goals.

Design concept plans are being developed to elevate the interior and exterior spaces through sustainable and integrated strategies. The exterior pathways will be renovated to include a new pedestrian corridor lit with decorative street lighting and Dark Sky Compliant festoon lighting along the pathways. Step lighting recessed into the material of the seating, stairs, handrails, and bridges provides seamless wayfinding and increased safety. Decorative rock wall planters, meant to mimic the recognizable nature and rock formations of Boulder, are beautifully framed by toe-kick lighting. Perforated metal fins on the pavilion façade not only create an aesthetically pleasing exterior but allow for Dark Sky Compliant RGBW lighting used during holidays and special occasions. The result will be greater opportunities for interaction, engagement, and connection among community members, professionals, local businesses, and visitors.

Client and Photo Credit: ZGF Architects
Lighting Design, Sustainability, New Construction, Renovation, Adaptive-Reuse