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A Hospital Designed by Children….
What happen’s when you let your patients – which in this case are children assist in the redesign of a hospital? Something extraordinary! Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, UK did just that and is set to reveal and open in the summer of 2015. The following post is from BDP’s site and may be seen here.
BDP Reveals Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Designs
Existing hospital to be demolished to create parkland setting
BDP has revealed its designs for its £237 million redevelopment of Alder Hey children’s hospital in Liverpool.
The 60,000sq m hospital will be built in Springfield Park next door to the current building, which will then be demolished and turned into a replacement park.
The hospital has been designed to ensure that the majority of bedrooms have park views and patients will have easy access to play areas on and outside their ward.
Louise Shepherd, Alder Hey chief executive, said: “The designs for the hospital have been inspired by children and it was a drawing from one of our patients which inspired the design we will see today.
“We felt it was really important to design this hospital with the help of our children who have been involved throughout the development phase.”
The hospital will have 270 beds, including 48 critical care beds, and 16 operating theatres. There will be six standard wards with 32 beds. Each ward will have two four bed bays and 24 single rooms on each ward.
Benedict Zucchi, project architect at BDP, said: “Our design concept has evolved through a significant number of user engagement meetings and allowed us to fine-tune the clinical layouts and optimise adjacencies to an unprecedented level.”
The hospital will be developed by the Acorn consortium, a partnership between John Laing, Laing O’Rourke and Interserve.
Construction is expected to be completed ready for the hospital to open in the summer of 2015.
