Parking Garage 2

Planning

Design

Construction Administration

LOCATION

Aurora, CO

OWNER

UCHealth

SIZE

435,000 SF

COMPLETION

Spring 2023

UCHealth-University of Colorado Hospital expanded its parking services on the Anschutz Medical Campus in order to handle current and future demands for its outpatient and visitor population with a new parking garage. Pact Studios lead a multi-disciplinary design team to help meet this demand. The new six-story parking garage replaced the existing visitor lot adjacent to the Anshutz Outpatient Pavilion entrance, and supplies approximately 1,300 outpatient and visitor parking spaces on the northwest corner of Aurora Court and 16th Avenue. The structural solution is post-tensioned cast-in-place concrete. 

In collaboration with UCHealth, the design team developed Project Goals and Guiding Principles which included: 

• Enhance the Patient Experience: what they see and feel; including access and cleanliness.  

• Promote greater overall pedestrian safety, including crossing 16th Avenue and accessing parking and bus stop areas, through improved site circulation for both vehicles and pedestrians.

• Create flexibility in the design of the parking structure to accommodate future changes in technology, transportation, and user demographics (patient, visitor, valet, employee).

Careful consideration was made to site the building to protect as many existing, mature trees as possible. Enhanced pedestrian landscape spaces to the north and west provide visitors an enjoyable transition from the parking garage to their outpatient appointments. Upon completion, this garage provided a safer, closer, and more comfortable parking for patients and visitors.