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HEALTHCARE DESIGN PROJECT REPORT
FAST FACTS
Location: former BBC Pebble Mill Studios site (1971-2007) Total project cost: £50m Site: three acres Building area: 15,500 m2 BREEAM rating: Excellent Facilities: 154 dentistry bays/ treatment areas Opened: March 2016
Being responsible for the interior design as well as the architecture brought its own advantages
pain – can move through the building with the minimum of stress. When people arrive they need to intuitively know where they are going.”
Being responsible for the interior design as well as the architecture brought its own advantages in this aspect for One, which worked with users to develop a wayfinding strategy.
“The design of the atrium, the central hub of the building, is critical,” says Tebbatt. “Every department is quickly and easily reached from there and each has its own reception and sub-waiting area. The waiting areas are on the balconies of the building so they can be seen more clearly, and found intuitively.
“To make interior navigation easy our interior designers selected a fairly neutral pallet in general but used striking colours for the wayfinding, so visitors and patients know to follow specific colours to get to their destination.”
Embossed cladding
The building is clad in attractive metal sheets, many of which are embossed with a design based on a microscopic view of dentine inside the tooth, called odontoblasts.
“If you’re a dental student it’s instantly recognisable and if you’re a patient or visitor it’s a nice pattern that flows into the building. We wanted a design that wouldn’t date and something that had depth behind it and the microscopic tooth pattern embodies what the hospital and the whole organisation is all about.” The Trimo Qbiss One panels are made from pressed, sheet-rolled steel. Some are powder-coated while others feature a special metallic finish and are used across
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