Projects

Healthcare

Okehampton Hospital

Okehampton, Devon, UK

This new community hospital provides general medical and confused-elderly wards, casualty, maternity, outpatients, mortuary and admin areas. On a sloping site, the principal elements are innovatively arrayed to follow site contours, maximising use of natural ventilation and daylight and substantially reducing the cost of mechanical servicing usual to hospital buildings.

The planning created opportunities for a series of intimate 'garden' spaces which contribute to the fulfillment of the original brief for a "centre for health" rather than illness - a place where patients 'feel better already' simply by visiting the building.

Grainge Architects - Okehampton Hospital
Grainge Architects - Okehampton Hospital
Grainge Architects - Okehampton Hospital
Grainge Architects - Okehampton Hospital