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The all-electric hospital has a million kilowatt hours of PV interwoven with green roofs, and air source heat pumps as well as mechanical heat recovery
down by department, with outpatients, radiotherapy, imaging and diagnostics on the ground floor and inpatient rooms on the first. There are two circulation cores at the north and south ends of the building. There is also an education facility, as well as catering and FM, administration and pharmacy. In terms of how the clinical adjacencies were arrived at, Woodford says that there are always a wide variety of requirements, and resolving these “is kind of like a 3D puzzle.” He continues: “The arrangement was about making it as efficient as possible; you also have to think about growth over time; and changes in medical pathways and treatment.” The architects developed a rational H-shaped diagram with a central atrium core of CLT called the ‘Lolfa’ (Welsh for living room), which patients enter into first. There are entrances at the west and east; “because it’s kind of a building in the round, and rather than enter via a roundabout we wanted to address the neighbourhood because it’s kind of in the middle of this landscape.”
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the atrium core on the ground level, with most patients going to the outpatients and radiotherapy facilities. There is also direct access for the Centre for Learning, which also includes an Innovation Lab offering research and training. Patients and visitors will experience a timber-clad entrance area with a cafe and restaurant, a patient- transport waiting area and a lounge for younger patients.
The first floor contains all the inpatient facilities, and the southern facade has a discreet balcony allowing patients at end of life to be outside. There are also internal courtyards, and on the lower ground floor of the sloping site is the chemotherapy suite, directly connected to the car park enabling discrete regular access. The pharmacy is also located here, connecting horizontally to chemotherapy but also vertically to the other areas.
The facade of the building was designed to allow internal spaces to be easily reconfigured without the need for structural alterations. This intends to make it easy to adapt the hospital to future innovations in treatment and equipment. What the practice
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