When Bellevue Hospital needed an attractive face for the large soil nail wall shoring its parking-lot expansion, Boulderscape delivered a hand-carved Bellevue Ashlar finish — 18,130 square feet of sculpted shotcrete, more economical than the alternatives and fast enough to keep the job on schedule.
Bellevue Hospital and its general contractor needed an attractive face for the large soil nail wall shoring their parking-lot expansion — easy on the eye, more economical than the alternatives, and fast enough to keep the project on schedule. Boulderscape proposed its Bellevue Ashlar finish.
Our artisans hand-carved oversized ashlar stones — 12 to 30 inches each — scaled to keep perfect proportion across the 18,130-square-foot wall. A weathered earth-blend stain then tied the finish to the colors of the hospital itself, so the shoring wall reads as natural masonry rather than infrastructure.
Behind the sculpted face, the wall is all structure: an 8-inch structural shotcrete section over the soil nail shoring, topped with a 2-inch architectural layer the artisans carved by hand. Completed in 20 days, it delivered 41% average savings over traditional construction.
From a utilitarian soil nail wall to a hand-carved stone feature, the Bellevue Hospital project shows how architectural shotcrete turns required infrastructure into something worth looking at — on schedule and under budget. At Boulderscape, shotcrete isn't just a structural solution; it's a precision tool for turning infrastructure into architecture.
