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NEWS HEALTHCARE
Medical Architecture submits plans for ‘non-institutional’ community unit
A planning application has been submitted for a community hospital in Consett, designed by Medical Architecture for County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust. The project forms part of Cohort 2 of the New Hospitals Programme – a plan by NHS England & NHS Improvement hoped to see 40 new healthcare facilities built by 2030. Employing a “holistic approach to health and wellbeing,” Shotley Bridge Community Hospital has been designed to create a “fl exible and non-institutional healthcare environment, providing opportunities for patients and staff to connect with the outdoors and benefi t from the therapeutic qualities of nature,” said Lianne Knotts, director at Medical Architecture. Arranged around two large, landscaped courtyards – The ‘Serenity Garden’ and The ‘Healing Garden’ – the hospital will offer a range of facilities including outpatient services and diagnostics, an urgent care centre, a medical investigations unit for cancer services alongside a chemotherapy day unit, family health services, and a
NEW APPOINTMENT
DMWR Architects makes Room its Manchester studio lead
DMWR Architects has appointed Marion Room as director to lead its expanding Manchester studio and “build upon the practice’s recent growth in the North West,” said the fi rm. Room, who has over 20 years’ experience working across many sectors including commercial, mixed use, masterplanning, healthcare and higher education, has worked in both the London and Manchester markets for practices including BDP, Sheppard Robson, and TP Bennett. Barry Harper-Smith, managing director of DMWR Architects commented: “Marion is an exciting addition to our Manchester studio. I look forward to
working closely with her to build on exciting and new opportunities going forward.”
Marion Room is an active member
of Women in Property, and recently participated on the judging panel of the National Student Awards. She also strongly advocates mentoring programmes as a way of supporting the next generation of architects coming into the industry.
She commented: “I am really excited to be joining DMWR and working with this talented team.” Room added: “I have a wealth of experience across a range of sectors, which has enabled me to make strong connections in the industry.”
16-bed rehabilitation inpatient ward. Encouraging sustainable means of transport, a pedestrian and cycle link will be created to connect with the coast-to- coast cycle route that runs adjacent to the site, as well as a new footpath leading from the town centre.
The plan aims to bring natural daylight into the heart of the building, and offers the majority of rooms an outside view. The courtyard spaces, with landscape design by ONE Environments, feature planting “rich in texture, form and colour.” A colonnaded canopy on either side of the building “breaks down its scale and mediates the transition from the car park and the new public footpath.” The architects added: “Carefully articulated thresholds act as welcoming intermediary spaces between outside and inside, and provide legible markers for entrances.” Combined with external seating between brick piers and generously proportioned windows, these elements “help reinforce the message that the hospital is part of, and for, the local community.”
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The predominant external cladding material is a textured, ‘multi’ light buff brick that has similar visual qualities to the local sandstone architecture. In addition, bandings of profi led glass-reinforced concrete panels emulate the texture of stone. A perforated metal rainscreen is proposed as a crown to the top storey of the building, “paying homage to the historic signifi cance of the site as part of the former Consett Steelworks.” Working alongside MMC consultants – Akerlof – the hospital has been designed to achieve BREEAM ‘Excellent’ and adopts the NHS’ net zero carbon standards as a guiding principle, to minimise the hospital’s operational and whole life carbon footprint.
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