Lowell General Hospital is renovating a former Emergency Department into a new, state of the art, 11 bed ICU to modernize and expand the services of the existing 12 bed ICU, which is planned to be renovated in Phase 2 of the project. A 3000sf addition around the perimeter of the renovated space will provide a separate family zone, housing serene waiting and lounge areas separate from the clinical core. The addition extends out over a steep hillside and will be wrapped with a new curtain wall allowing views to nature and daylight deep into the ICU patient rooms. A Healing Garden will be located adjacent to the ICU.