University of Waterloo Selects HOK to Design New Eye Institute University of Waterloo Selects HOK to Design New Eye Institute HOK’s design team includes consultant Chris Downey, an architect who has lived as both sighted and blind. By Share The University of Waterloo’s School of Optometry & Vision Science has selected HOK to design its new Waterloo Eye Institute. The project will recreate the clinical patient care spaces and blend patient care with spaces for education. Rendering courtesy of HOK Specialty patient care services include primary care and pediatric clinics, ocular health and contact lens clinics, low vision rehabilitation and research clinics, teleoptometry centres, an ambulatory ophthalmology surgical centre and research facilities dedicated to ocular imaging research and biomedical science. The 67,000-sq.-ft. Institute will enhance and expand two floors of the existing School of Optometry & Vision Science building on the University of Waterloo’s campus.