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Defining the Need.

We examine the flows and resources of people through the building, in order to maximise efficiency at every opportunity.We reduce avoidable travel by designing to adjacencies and linkages wherever they add value – while at the same time understanding the need to keep certain functions, or categories of user, very separate.

We include and consider as many variables as we can to make sure that the hospital will function as well as it can.. We produce detailed functional and support diagrams to guide the process.When these diagrams are agreed with our client, we create spatial diagrams, detailing all required rooms, their shapes and the relations between them.This allows us to engage more specialist stakeholders, and make sure their requirements for each of the rooms are met.. We describe this approach as designing the hospital from the inside out.

But we never lose sight of the architectural response to the brief.Creating a beautiful space is a value-driver in itself, with a proven link to clinical outcomes.

Nothing is in isolation..

Flexibility through standardisation.We look at issues such as the material choice for a building’s facade and structure, as well as energy performance and thermal comfort.

These are evaluated with respect to the passing of time.What will happen year on year, and at the end of a building’s life?.

Embodied carbon in sustainable building design.One of the core issues we’re trying to tackle with sustainable design revolves around carbon.