Setter Architects Ltd

GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare
© Uzi Porat

GE HEALTHCARE

Setter Architects

TEAM
Eleanor Hashalom Rondelle, Oren Chiprout, Sian Kapan

MANUFACTURERS
Maars, Milliken, Regent, Saint Gobain, Teknion, Covering Chile

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Bella Ventura

PHOTOGRAPHS
Uzi Porat

AREA
4200.0 m2

YEAR
2017

LOCATION
Haifa, Israel

CATEGORY
Offices Interiors

GE Healthcare
© Uzi Porat
GE Healthcare
© Uzi Porat

“SEEING THROUNGH THE LAYERS”

GE Healthcare engages in research and development of medical imaging via MRI/CT.

GE Healthcare
© Uzi Porat
GE Healthcare
© Uzi Porat

We launched our design process by analyzing what the company does and seeing how we could reflect it in architectural terms.

Our overarching aspiration was to celebrate GE Healthcare’s uniqueness and to identify the point where architectonic design could encounter and merge with elements of medical imaging.

GE Healthcare
© Uzi Porat
GE Healthcare
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And so, rather like a medical intervention, our design process began with a search into deep layers to make discoveries.We created interfaces between the elements and projected them into the wider setting of the company’s workplace, to build interest within the space.

The partitions separating the work-stations from the shared space let the eyes roam inwards, yet still allow a degree of privacy. Within the space, the layers form unusual perspectives. In the lobby, for example, the viewer’s gaze towards the cafeteria and the green wall passes through latticed metal elements on both sides of the steps. 

GE Healthcare
© Uzi Porat
GE Healthcare
© Uzi Porat

Changing elements of wood build a 3-D picture, like the benches that “grow” out of the various segments and textures, revealing the work-spaces as if exploring the body’s inner organs.

Illuminated elements are etched into a material, evoking the computerized images obtained by radiation from several angles. We used natural materials and a palette of soft colors to showcase the rich textures, in a dialogue with MRI and CT images on a smaller scale.

GE Healthcare
© Uzi Porat
GE Healthcare
© Uzi Porat

Our design was inspired by GE’s cutting-edge technology, with its options for seeing the human body’s tissues and layers from the outside. And that foregrounding of technological advances combined with the simplicity we used is what makes GE Healthcare’s offices so distinctive.


GE Healthcare
Fifth Floor Plan
GE Healthcare
Fourth Floor Plan
GE Healthcare
Sixth Floor Plan

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