Navos Behavioral Care Center for Children, Youth and Families

Independence Bridge provides housing and support services for youth transitioning from foster care to independence. Each space is designed to create a sense of community, security and home.

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The community room at Independence Bridge is a warm and welcoming space for residents to prepare food, dine and gather around a central hearth made from reclaimed wood.

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Playful environmental graphics create a sense of lightness to welcome patients to the Center.
Warm colors and wood finishes, from floor to ceiling, embrace visitors to the Navos Lake Burien Children’s Center.

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Connections to the outdoors are celebrated at the residential cottages with views to Lake Burien.

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Intimately-scaled and daylit alcoves provide home-like spaces for youth outside their individual rooms at the cottages.

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Lakeside Campus for Healing and Hope

Navos Behavioral Healthcare Center for Children, Youth and Families

Burien, WA

Integrating Services and Place

The campus brings together programs provided by Navos and its legacy organizations within a pastoral setting on the shores of Lake Burien. The master plan is centered on the child, interweaving buildings and landscape to support a constant connection with nature and enrich the Center’s ‘Engagement Model of Care.’

Pioneering Model for Care

With a welcoming, camp-like atmosphere designed to reduce stigma, the campus offers an array of programs that address the complex needs of young children, school-aged youth, young adults and families. This is a safe, therapeutic environment tailored to provide children and youth with the treatment and support they need to heal.

Connection to Nature

New buildings are interspersed with native plant communities to create a layered, permeable transition from lakeside to upland forest. Sustainable design is integrated throughout the campus, from supporting wetland biodiversity at stream banks to energy efficient systems at all buildings.

Client

Navos Mental Health Solutions

Overview

Redevelopment of a mental health campus to better support long-term inpatient and outpatient care in a compelling natural setting

Program

Six 5-bed residential cottages; 20,450 sf outpatient services building; 24-unit transitional housing for young adults; renovated educational buildings; studios for art, dance and music; classroom wing; administration; outdoor recreation area

Size

54,630 sf; 7.5 acres

Sustainable Metrics

LEED Silver, Certified

Completion Date

2015

Services

Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture

Awards

ENR Northwest Best Projects, Award of Merit, Healthcare, 2016

NAIOP Washington Chapter Night of the Stars Awards, Community Impact Development of the Year Award, 2015

IIDA Northern Pacific Chapter INawards, Design INstory Award, 2015

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Independence Bridge provides housing and support services for youth transitioning from foster care to independence. Each space is designed to create a sense of community, security and home.

The community room at Independence Bridge is a warm and welcoming space for residents to prepare food, dine and gather around a central hearth made from reclaimed wood.

Playful environmental graphics create a sense of lightness to welcome patients to the Center.

Warm colors and wood finishes, from floor to ceiling, embrace visitors to the Navos Lake Burien Children’s Center.

Connections to the outdoors are celebrated at the residential cottages with views to Lake Burien.

Intimately-scaled and daylit alcoves provide home-like spaces for youth outside their individual rooms at the cottages.

Lakeside Campus for Healing and Hope

Navos Behavioral Healthcare Center for Children, Youth and Families