Bryden Wood designs for future healthcare needs

摘要

Bryden Wood's work with Circle Health, with hospitals in Reading and now Birmingham, involves "visualising the future of a healthcare asset at the very beginning of the design process", as director Paul O'Neill puts it. "Healthcare business models are renowned for rapid and disruptive evolution," he says. "The brief often evolves quicker than design teams and contractors can keep up with and clients increasingly need to create expandable hospitals. "At Pebble Mill, the challenging aspect of the brief was achieving a building which can not only expand but also accommodate healthcare services for different patient profiles, within the same envelope." Each wing was designed to expand either vertically or horizontally. The hospitality wing can reach up to five storeys, while the clinical wing is designed to expand horizontally to provide additional theatres and ancillary spaces, and vertically up to four storeys, for treatment and inpatient areas.