
St Andrews Health Centre, London
St Andrew's Health Centre forms part of a 964 home
masterplan in East London serving up to 20,000 local people on a three hectare disused hospital site.
The low-carbon scheme includes three linear blocks,
each planned around a central courtyard and arranged to form streets and clear boundaries
between public and private space.
The healthcare centre accommodates a GP surgery,
pharmacy and community health services, open 7
days a week.
Facilities are also available for local networks of
community groups and voluntary organisations.
The consultation rooms are arranged around a
central open courtyard space over two levels as part
of the residential courtyard block.
The services design was developed to meet the
Trust's onerous brief to naturally ventilate the
accommodation and avoid the use of air
conditioning. This resulted in detailed thermal
modelling which identified the design of the opening
windows and facade orientation.
Cited in the Mayor's Housing Design
Supplementray Planning Guidance as an
examplar project for both its contemporary design
and internal space standards.