Located within the basement of Penn Presbyterian’s Scheie Eye Institute, the Scheie Surgical Skills Lab is a new lab for the school’s residents and fellows to practice surgical skills under attending physician instruction.
In addition to a lecture hall and library, the program is characterized by 11 desk stations. Each station is equipped with a microscope and AV systems that allow instructors to push individual video content to each station, and allow footage from any microscope to be streamed to all others in the lab.
The main challenge of this project lay within the basement space itself. As Scheie is a cast-in-place concrete building, large concrete stiffener walls projected into the space. Instead of working against them, we took advantage of the natural “alcoves” these created to base our program around. The first alcove houses the lecture hall and library, while the stations are spread around the other two.
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