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HEALTHCARE BUILD & DESIGN PROJECT REPORT


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embraced by Coventry council’s design officer, which in turn gave Tangram more scope to design a distinctive building that was fit for its varied purposes. David Whitehead: “As the proposal was located on the main arterial road and was therefore a gateway site for Coventry, the design officer to make something special here – a landmark building.”


Broken form


Tangram sought to break down what might have been a monolithic building on this constrained site, by creating a series of sloping forms linked with green roofs and terraces. Combined with this, the architects also embraced the notion of the building being a ‘landmark’, graduating the rooflines up from two stories to three towards the highly visible corner of the site on Sky Blue Way. This change in gradient takes the rhythm of the terraced housing behind the hospital up to a scale which will compete with more substantial buildings on this main road and “create some grandeur” as David Whitehead puts it. “There are a number of large-scale buildings adjacent to Sky Blue Way, such as the university halls of residence,” adding: “In order to compete with the scale of these buildings the build-


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ing had to punch above its weight.” The gymnasium sits at the centre of the site between the square shaped building housing PICU, locked rehabilitation and administration at first floor, and the more rectangular locked rehabilitation and transitional living unit. This provides a major element of its visual impact in this prominent location, with a butterfly roof clad in translucent Rodeca polycarbonate cladding which gives the gym a night-time glow when activities are taking place inside. As Whitehead says, “It sort of acts as a lantern, it’s a focal point of the site. Smith adds: “It used to be a tired and overgrown piece of hard-standing and now it has something beautiful on it, and the ‘lantern’ acts as a beacon for the building.” The brise soleil and window surrounds also help the building tie in visually with the bay-windowed red-brick housing. The cladding mix is partially brick and partially a complementary Trespa rainscreen panel which further ties in with the local vernacu- lar, along with rendered blockwork. Windows, provided by Crittall Fendor, all


have “embedded security measures,” now typical of mental health schemes and are a mix of sliding windows and fixed, in various size and heights, and taller at the


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It’s an interesting mixture without overdoing it – we have created some characterful elevations Alex Smith, Tangram Architects


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