MENTAL HEALTH FACILITIES
Staff terrace view.
Foundation, Rayne Foundation, Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Garfield Weston, Wolfson Foundation, alongside a range of individual and corporate supporters.
A collaboration hub At the heart of the Partnership’s plan is the Pears Maudsley Centre itself, located on the world leading Maudsley Hospital campus with a total floor space of just under 10,000 m2
across eight levels.
And at the heart of that facility is the ‘collaboration hub’ – a space in which researchers and clinicians will work side- by-side on conditions with high rates of occurrence in children and young people, including anxiety, depression, OCD, self- harm, eating disorders, trauma, ADHD, and autism. The work conducted in that hub will then inform and shape the practices followed throughout the building. That includes the Maudsley and Bethlem Hospital School, which provides continuing education to young people while they are being treated in hospital, and has been rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted. It also includes our inpatient and outpatient facilities, comprising 12 bedrooms, 15 consulting rooms, five observation and viewing rooms, and five rooms dedicated to the national Eating Disorders Intensive Treatment Programme (ITP). Finally, it includes the outdoor terraces and rooftop gardens that will function as spaces for therapeutic activities, learning, recreation, and relaxation. The KMP worked with the project’s
contractor, Integrated Health Projects (IHP), architects Arcadis Group, and principal designer Graham Harris to knit all of these facilities together in a design tailored to the experience and mental health needs of service users. Developments in our understanding of
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mental illness have gone hand-in-hand with an increased awareness of how architectural design shapes the way we relate to our environment, and in doing so affects our mental health and wellbeing. That is why, from inception to delivery, Arcadis designed the building with mental health needs in mind, and in close consultation with young people. This work is especially evident in the
Centre’s terraced form, which has increased internal floor space and created outdoor spaces for patients across multiple levels of the building. The building’s structure also reduces ‘canyon’ effects, which can negatively affect light and air quality, and has a shallow plan that admits natural light into as many of its rooms and hallways as possible. The design is also vertically stacked, allowing for the separation of spaces – from leisure-based day rooms to therapy areas and learning environments – according to their core function and maintaining the privacy and security the Trust requires for all service users. Accessible, landscaped spaces on the
lower levels connect the facility’s welcome areas with outpatient consultation and treatment rooms, as well as administrative services. On the building’s second and third levels, where the Centre’s fully accessible spaces meet inpatient spaces, is the collaboration hub, a suite of flexible, open-plan offices that will allow researchers and clinicians from the Trust and King’s College London to engage in collaboration and dialogue. Finally, the inpatient spaces on the upper floors draw together spaces for study, play, family time, and treatment through easily navigable and brightly lit hallways. The interior design of these spaces uses sensory cues to establish their mood and purpose, while always giving a sense of calm and comfort. Rebecca Gray, the Chief Executive of the Maudsley Charity, summarised the project’s design ethos by saying: “The building will be bright, welcoming, and connected to nature. It will provide calm spaces for patients and will transform the experience of children and young people who access mental health services. It will
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