A vertical outpatient medical facility for Mount Sinai Doctors—organized across six floors plus cellar within a compact Lower East Side footprint.
Paper Plane Architecture designed 108 Delancey Street for Mount Sinai Doctors as a multi-level outpatient facility that balances patient experience, clinical operations, and the constraints of a narrow Manhattan building. The ground floor handles arrival, reception, restrooms, and support offices; floors two through six are organized as repeatable clinical levels with exam rooms, staff work areas, labs, storage, offices, and support spaces.
The ground floor is designed around a direct and understandable patient sequence: enter, check in, wait, and move toward care. Reception, seating, restrooms, circulation, and support functions are arranged so the public-facing floor feels calm and efficient rather than compressed.
The strength of the public spaces is restraint. Rather than rely on decorative gestures, the design uses clarity, proportion, lighting, durable finishes, and consistent detailing to support the experience of care.
The second floor of 108 Delancey Street connects directly to Mount Sinai Doctors' adjacent clinic at 104 Delancey Street. Paper Plane Architecture prepared the connection drawings for the new opening, allowing the two healthcare facilities to operate with a direct physical relationship.
The narrow site and extensive glazing create a strong connection to the city. Upper-level clinical spaces receive daylight and long views—an uncommon quality in many compact outpatient environments.
What makes 108 Delancey significant is the coordination of many recurring clinical requirements into one coherent vertical system: exam rooms, staff work areas, labs, storage, offices, restrooms, public circulation, and the physical connection to a neighboring Mount Sinai clinic.
For prospective healthcare clients, this project is less about a single image and more about the breadth of coordination required to make an outpatient facility function across multiple levels.
Repeatable exam-room and support-space planning across five outpatient floors.
Clear arrival, waiting, reception, circulation, and wayfinding within a compact footprint.
Integration of M/A stations, lab areas, office functions, storage, restrooms, and support spaces.
Healthcare delivery within a narrow Manhattan building plus a direct second-floor connection to an adjacent clinic.
108 Delancey demonstrates Paper Plane Architecture's ability to organize a complex outpatient program, create consistent clinical planning, shape patient-facing interiors, and coordinate healthcare space within the constraints of a dense New York City site.