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DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY HOSPITAL
DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY HOSPITAL BUILDING
PROJECTS
New district hospital campus passes the test
Designing a modern, state-of-the-art hospital on a greenfield site presents sounds like a golden opportunity but also came with challenges, as Ray Philpott reports
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A canopied entrance plaza simultaneously welcomes people to both the main hospital and the Women and Children's Unit
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asked with creating a district general hospital that provides an uplifting, positive experience for
people using it, the architects who designed it have skilfully utilised its attractive semi-rural location.
Conceived as a woodland campus concept, the new Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary is an aesthetically appeal- ing, well-organised, user-friendly, low-rise design that brings ‘the outside in’ while being sympathetic to its surroundings. The hospital will serve many small, widespread and diverse communities within the 2,400 square miles covered by NHS Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland’s South West and is centrally sited in a semi-rural location off the A75 road.
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Architecturally, the facility comprises three core elements. A central diagnostic and treatment ‘bar’ is the primary component, forming the backbone of the campus. Extending out from behind the linear-shaped bar and projecting into the landscape, are three independently linked pavilions of inpatient accommodation. A triple-sided Women and Children’s Unit – featuring a curved outward-facing facade and internal courtyard – adjoins the main building.
The district general hospital has been designed by Ryder Architecture in collaboration with NBBJ, to meet the increasingly sophisticated healthcare needs of the region’s growing and ageing population. The current district hospital in
ADF APRIL 2017
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