Woodford plays down any notion of this being an experimental building: “We did break the mould, but we weren’t being super-innovative, just pushing back against some of the norms we have in the NHS, and taking the client on the journey.”
Forms & levels
A set of sustainability factors were embedded throughout the design decision
phase, and helped to shape the building itself. “We followed a sustainability process through, from the siting and the building’s footprint, all the way through to the paint. It was always in the decision matrix, and the client was on board.”
White applied a lot of its extensive Scandinavian knowledge of not only building in timber, but also providing a different level of environmental quality