ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
from a training room on one side, and managed from a control room on the other. The mixed-use training spaces will become a key training hub for all staff and department groups. The neuromodulation suite will provide
several therapeutic interventions for both inpatients and outpatients, including electroconvulsive therapy. Staff welfare provision is sprinkled
across the building, with six staff rest rooms and four locker/changing rooms available. Multidisciplinary working is supported across the building, with a large staff base and ward clerk/admin office on each ward, as well as a variety of flexible spaces available across the building. Safety measures are integral to the whole design concept, with excellent sightlines providing staff with a simple overview of ward activity, alongside providing a reassuring point of assistance for patients. Walls are lined with plywood for robustness. Doors are robust solid core, with anti-barricade provision and anti- ligature alarms where appropriate. Joinery was selected to meet the DIMHN/BRE Informed Choices Testing Standard and/or Annex B testing. The co-production nature of this project has been really rewarding to be a part of. The involvement of Experts by Experience can be seen throughout the final building design. One of the simplest examples was a request to have tables with rounded
A bedroom concept sketch and a rendered image of a bedroom interior: Expert by Experience and P22 consultation feedback informed the ideal bed position. A half-bay window, angled towards the bed, gives a view towards trees and wildflower meadows from the bed.
corners in MDT meeting rooms. The Experts by Experience highlighted that the square edges they had experienced in small MDT rooms in the past had often felt like an unnecessary harshness in meetings, that could sometimes be the location of difficult discussions for them. It is simple measures like this that are both beneficial to the service-users of the future, and cost- effective for the capital budget, that can really make a successful hospital.
Virtual reality walkthroughs have
been produced, and will be used to aid the continued co-production, with all consultees able to walk around the building like a computer game. This will be particularly useful for staff to familiarise themselves with the building. Of particular focus for patients, EBEs,
and staff, has been the engagement with Gilling Dod’s Interior Design team, across all three workstreams. The central strand
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