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exceed the height of the Jenner building ridge line. The building also maintains the key views across the city, and has been designed to reflect the symmetry of the heritage asset, with three projecting elements that form the bedroom clusters. Between the clusters, the roof terraces step back up the building to reflect the stepped façade of the Jenner, and to create breathing space between the buildings.
An analysis of the urban context has been carried out to review colour, tone, texture, and material of the adjacent buildings, whilst a detailed study of the Jenner Building has been undertaken to understand proportion and rhythm, both vertically and horizontally within the existing façade, and has been used to develop the elevation treatment of the proposed building. Predominantly pale buff quality brick with angle recessed brick reveals, and a select palette of a few, quality materials, have been chosen to reflect those of the immediate environment and surrounding buildings. Curtain walling has been used to enliven the façades in key areas. To Dartmouth Park Hill a vertical strip helps to define the entrance, and a horizontal band at entry level to the café and entrance foyer, which provides another active, non- institutional frontage to the building along the main access point into the Whittington Hospital. Living wall panels have been incorporated between the window openings and secure roof terraces, to provide a vertical landscape, and create a calming and therapeutic view from ward bedrooms.
Landscape
The landscape scheme has been developed to create quality public realm spaces around and between the buildings. The strategy has been split into five character areas: l Dartmouth Park Hill. l Green ramped walkway. l Arrival plaza. l Pedestrian boulevard. l Natural woodland.
Mark Carter
Mark Carter, Partner, Ryder Architecture, joined the practice in 2017, and became a Partner in 2020. He has been involved in healthcare design for over 25 years, and has experience of multi-phased projects in the acute sector, including emergency, theatre, and diagnostics departments. He specialises in designing for mental health, and has worked across a wide range of specialist sub-sectors, including medium secure, low secure, PICU, adult acute, children and adolescent, rehabilitation, detox, older person’s, and functional and dementia.
He has also worked on many primary care facility schemes, and has a portfolio that also includes commercial projects, including leisure and food and beverage outlets. His key skills, in addition to healthcare architecture, are striving to achieve best practice in design, building strong relationships, and ensuring a clear project brief and appropriate design solutions through comprehensive stakeholder engagement.
Victor Muniz
Victor Muniz, Architectural director, Ryder Architecture, is a member of Mark Carter’s team, and has accumulated over 19 years’ architectural experience since graduating from the University of Seville in 2003. He has worked in Spain, South Africa, and the UK, across numerous sectors, including three years working exclusively on healthcare projects.
During this time, he has shaped the design of many hospital projects, acting as project leader and head of design from inception, and developing the brief, masterplanning, and concept design, to detail design, procurement, construction, and handover. His key skills lie in his confident decision making, management, and interpersonal approach, which complement his effective working relationship with clients and project teams.
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Predominantly pale buff quality brick with angle recessed brick reveals, and a select palette of a few, quality materials have been chosen to reflect the character and architectural style of the immediate environment and surrounding buildings.
Despite the site’s city location, planting has been carefully considered to ensure a natural aesthetic. Tree species have been chosen to make certain that routes are not overshadowed, while white bark and leaves create a balanced lightness. The streetscape of Dartmouth Park Hill benefits from a tree-lined frontage along much of its length, and the proposed landscape scheme will retain this character, and enhance the quality through new tree and shrub planting.
New ramped route
Here, a new ramped route has been created to provide access for all to the hospital campus, celebrating the existing pedestrian pathway, which will zig-zag through a green landscape, and lead to an arrival plaza connecting the wider campus to central green space. This space also creates a route for the public to enter the new unit at ground floor level, to make use of the sports hall as a further method of de- stigmatisation and involvement of the community.
Seating is provided on planter walls and individual units, creating places to meet, rest, or socialise, located in sunny, shaded,
and sheltered areas, providing a choice for users, and valuable wildlife resource through tree canopy cover. Small patio break-out areas provide people with a woodland environment to enjoy, with islands of greenery bursting through. Six roof terraces provide outdoor access for staff and patients, to allow users a relaxing and immersive space to both retreat and socialise. Each uses warm-to- touch materials, with rounded edges that are secured to the ground, and considered planting that it is low maintenance, non-toxic, and not harmful, and provides seasonal interest. Working with Islington Biodiversity Action Plan, the proposed landscape scheme aims to retain, protect, and enhance, the ecological habitat along the northern edge of the site for years to come.
Next steps
Work began on site this summer at Lowther Road, and the year ahead will see further plans for the St Pancras Hospital site taking shape, working alongside service-users, staff, and other local stakeholders, to help evolve the masterplan.
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