Technical & Practice

摘要

It's no secret that the ragbag of orthodoxies once known as 'rational' cladding design has been consigned to history. Llewelyn Davies Yeang's cladding to the Morgan Stanley Clinical Building at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children demonstrates this shift. The stone and render-clad rainscreen to this London hospital extension, due to be completed in December, relies heavilyrnon off-site fabrication and unitisation to tackle programme constraints and the restricted site footprint. The hospital chose an architect with longstanding experience in hospital design and with the integrated design expertise to address these constraints. Nevertheless, the rainscreen facades are bespoke, with few repetitive units, as required by the building's geometry.