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Project cost: £25 million Build time: 22 months Site size: 22,735m2 No. of windows: 250 Wards: 5 Bedrooms: 80
central facilities, offices and shared therapy areas and also encloses the retaining structure at the rear of the site. This provides opportunities for standardised layouts while
offering a degree of customisation for different care groups. Other advantages include: • residential wards separated from therapy spaces to encourage meaningful, self-directed activity
•garden spaces between buildings •maximum natural light on the floor plan •familiar, residential-scale, single-storey ward pavilions with ‘front doors’.
Distribution routes for food and linen are external, albeit
under sheltered cloisters to reduce floor area, and provide a degree of separation between patient and service flows. The 17-bedroom wards are in back-to-back pairs where possible to enable reduced staffing during evenings and weekends.
Interior design
“Psychiatric hospital interiors are too often the product of unmoderated risk management that can result in a joyless and institutional setting,” says Shaw. “Interior design makes a huge difference to the quality of
experience for patients, staff and visitors. It embraces safety, communicates a professional caring ethos and gives a sense of self-worth and dignity to service users and healthcare professionals alike. “Design quality and the inclusion of art became increasingly
strong drivers.” Landscape Architects Camlin Lonsdale worked alongside
Medical Architecture’s landscape team to provide a thoughtful and enjoyable group of therapeutic garden spaces. An arts initiative, co-curated by the Trust’s Berenice Gibson
and Tate Liverpool, devised a creative brief with the aim of embedding works in the environment rather than applying them as an afterthought. Artists David Mackie and Heather Parnell were selected to
develop a number of works for the project. Cargo-themed images reflecting local maritime heritage are closely woven into the design and feature prominently as one moves through the building. Shaw adds: “Furniture and fittings were selected at an
open day organised by the Medical Architecture interiors team at Aintree. Manufacturers were invited to exhibit modern, friendly and non-institutional furniture for those who were to work in the building to select. The results speak for themselves.”
Welcoming entrance
The interior is designed to allow light to flood in where possible and to offer views of attractive, landscaped courtyards and outside spaces
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Clock View was conceived as a beacon, acting as a catalyst for the regeneration of a run-down part of town, and stands in complete contrast to its surroundings – highly visible, bright and clean. The placement and design details of a hospital entrance
make a vast difference as to how mental healthcare relates to the individual user, visitors, people who work there and, more broadly, to the whole community served. Continued on page 38...
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