Durham
Outpatient
Center Rooftop
Plaza
Outside of the Nebraska Café on level three of Nebraska Medicine's University Tower, the Rooftop Plaza had fallen into disrepair. Initially built in the early nineties, the space had closed for use due to a lack of shade opportunities, uneven pedestal paving, plugged drains, and the roof membrane needing replacement.
Nebraska Medicine recognized this project as an opportunity to give its staff, patients and visitors new chances to interact with the outdoors and enhance wellness with an engaging, artful plaza space. RDG worked with NMED to create new shade-protected seating structures and seating types, replace the roof membrane system, design lighting systems and add a planting palette incorporating native landscaping that thrives in an intensive green roof environment.