Client: NHS Hampshire / Solent Community Solutions / Morgan Sindall
Location: Hampshire, UK
Size: 2,713m²
Skills: Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture
This project for NHS Primary Care Building was fundamentally designed to echo the new model of care with a contemporary architectural design that reflected the Trust’s vision and aspirations, offering the local population a more holistic environment to deliver primary and secondary care.
The design follows a simplified form of space syntax analysis and the site characteristics form the building’s simple crescent shape containing the primary public concourse, with four radial finger blocks branching out into a landscaped garden. The spatial appearance of the central loggia has been designed as an open communication concourse with light and airy, communal waiting areas for all departments with views out into the plaza. The building is orientated with the curved glazed facade of the public entrance space addressing the arrival and drop off areas, with a sense of civic status and arrival. The diagnostic assessment and clinical spaces are located at the rear within the four radial blocks. The simplicity of the plan allows the visitor to immediately understand the building layout by providing direct lines of vision through to reception, waiting areas and departmental entrances.
The curvilinear theme is reflected in the sculptural form with the gently undulating roofs used to create a building that integrates well in the rich surroundings. The design integrates the new building with the existing parkland setting and forms a key part of the project with close visual links between the building and the landscaped entrance plaza, with a shared surface adjacent to the glazed atrium space to the north. New trees are added and the existing native planting is augmented to provide a buffer zone to blend with the surrounding landscape, including meadow areas, woodland under storey and hedgerows.
Winner of a 2010 Green Apple Award for Environmental Best Practice