FKP Architects

Amy Force

Mission and Goals

• Mission: Improving people’s lives by design

• Values: people, integrity, client services, teamwork, innovation excellence

• Vision: focus on Healthcare, Science and Higher Education

The Environment

• Work in teams

• Everyone is friendly and helpful

• Encourage questions and exposure

• Create fun activities and learning luncheons

Texas Children’s Hospital

• Houston, Texas• Clinic floors, two-story, color-coded geometric shapes

that help parents with way finding and fun spaces for kids

• Increase in exam room use, registration time faster, larger annual increase in patients, more productive space

• 2003 ASID Interior Design Award, 2003 AIA Houston Design Award 2002, Business Week/ Architectural Record- Design is Good Business Award

Texas Children’s Hospital

Feigin Research Center

• Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas• Owned by Texas Children’s Hospital • 12 floors of research space and other uses• Renovation of 151,000 square feet of space for

research labs, a conference center and "internet cafe" spaces for researcher interaction

• Research cancer, gene therapy and cell therapy

Feigin Research Center

What I do

• Build models

• Put together presentations

• Help with plans and drawings

• Sit in on meetings

• Brainstorm

• Have fun

How this relates to me

• Goals same as mine

• Exposure– Real world– How firm operates and selection of job

opportunties– Healthcare emphasis

• Experience

How this relates to my project

• New ways of thinking

• Other ways of helping people

• How to organize

• How to work in teams