Approach

Taylor Design is a firm that collaborates with our clients to learn together and develop powerful user-based solutions, places, and services that drive value and are effective, valid, and delightful.

We embrace market sectors and projects that contribute
to positive experiences and the creation of greater
possibilities for people.

Design Process

How We Work: Strategy-based Design

process

Services

Ultimately, our work hinges on design as a tool for driving value and serving client needs

Taylor Design’s three practice areas – Architecture, Environments, and Strategies – are
united in their use of design as both a point of view, and a unifying method for
our work. Our services are integrated in how we work with clients, and how we
identify unique solutions to business needs, whether in the built environment,
or as freestanding strategy solutions.

Architecture

At Taylor Design, we believe in creating spaces of consequence—places where individuals can come together to develop an appreciation for community, a shared purpose, and identity. In such settings, experiences are enhanced and more authentic, cultures are enriched and new ones created, and a sense of community becomes more meaningful even while designs are mindful of sustainability and set the stage for greater possibilities.

Environments

Our Environments practice at Taylor Design is about creating experiences that have been developed through an approach that is multi-dimensional, strategic, and interdisciplinary in its focus. Taylor Design’s Environments practice is defined by how we collaborate with our clients and act as a collaborator to transform the experience of their surroundings and their interactions in ways that drive value beyond the physical environment.

Strategies

The Strategies practice at Taylor Design is based on the discipline of design strategy and the principles of design thinking: we use design as a method for developing solutions and driving value for our clients. We collaborate with our clients to determine if core assumptions are being questioned so that action plans are targeted and to ensure that organizational initiatives are meaningful, effective, and valid. Our strategy services exist as freestanding projects or as fully amalgamated into Taylor Design’s built-environment projects as an integral part of our design process.

Markets

Science & Technology

Taylor Design’s Science and Technology Practice is especially qualified to design high technology research environments with attention to organizational purpose, workplace culture, technological requirements, and the needs of facility users. Our experience with complex science environments enables us to make certain the facility complements workplace goals and the demands of equipment-intensive scientific undertakings.

Healthcare

For over 36 years Taylor Design has engaged in the design of healthcare facilities; we understand that health and wellness – in general healthcare as well as design for behavioral health and senior living – is becoming informed by other market sectors, and that cultural, social, and lifestyle factors are increasingly significant in terms of healthcare delivery. In our healthcare design practice, we strive to advance service delivery, patient experience, and the community presence of our client partners.

Education

Taylor Design has a history working with education clients; we understand the intersections of healthcare, research, and the academic arena, and have worked with clients on education-based design projects that respect organizational contexts that are unique to educational institutions. In our education strategy and design work, we employ a process that integrates specific project needs with overarching academic plans, professional roles, and community relations as well as brand and potential fundraising goals.

Work

UCSF Ambulatory Care Center (ACC) 5 Heart & Vascular Clinic

Ambulatory Care Center (ACC) 5 Heart & Vascular Clinic: UCSF

Rejuve(n)ate Cafe: Kaiser Permanente

Vascular Surgery Clinic and Ambulatory Surgery Center: San Francisco Vein and Vascular Institute

Northwest Tower Addition: St. Jude Medical Center

Antelope Valley Medical Offices: Kaiser Permanente

Hospital Renovation: Hoag Hospital Irvine

Martin Luther King, Jr. Center For Public Health

Heart & Vascular Institute: Hoag Hospital

Anderson Medical Pavilion: Scripps Health

Cancer Center: Hoag Hospital

Bill & Sue Gross Women’s Pavilion: Hoag Hospital

Outpatient Pavilion II: UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland

Pediatric Addition: Miller Children’s Hospital

Research and Real Estate Strategy: Confidential Client

Cath Lab Replacement: Stanford Hospital and Clinics

Center for Integrative Medicine: Scripps Health

CT Replacement: Stanford Blake Wilbur Clinic

Community Center: Latino Health Access

Chemical Dependency Residential Living Program: Hoag Hospital

Claremont Clinics: UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland

Building 041 Renovation: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

La Brea Bakery: Cedars Sinai Medical Center

MRI Suite & Radiology Renovation: Stanford University Medical Center

Cancer Center and MOB: St. Joseph’s Hospital

Radiation Therapy Center: Scripps Health

Ventura Water District Visioning and Facilitation: Chevron Energy Solutions

Clinic and Social Services Center: Share Our Selves

Bldg 52 Accelerator Control and Network Room: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

West Renovation: Miller Children’s Hospital

Palm Court II Call Center: Kaiser Permanente

Chao Cancer Center: UCI Medical Center

Scripps Clinic Carmel Valley: Scripps Health

Garden Grove Medical Offices: Kaiser Permanente

Emergency Department: Foothill Presbyterian Hospital

Critical Care Unit: Hoag Hospital

Nuclear Medicine Camera Installation: UCSF Medical Center

Leadership Development Program Study: Banff Centre

Scripps La Jolla SB 1953 Seismic Upgrade: Scripps Health

Santa Maria Hospital: St. Mary’s

Welcome Center: Department of Veterans Affairs

Division of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery: Scripps Green Hospital

Pacific Breast Center: Pacific Breast Care Medical Group, Inc.

Child Development Center: Irvine Valley College

Child Development Center: Orange Coast College

Children’s After School Center: Orange Coast College

People

Our firm’s culture attracts people who believe in the opportunity
for design to make a difference, and the idea that we can best create
possibilities by partnering with clients that are driven by purpose
and are service-oriented.