Integrating Care by De Syllas Justin

Author:De Syllas, Justin
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317563624
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2015-06-11T16:00:00+00:00

Heart of Hounslow Centre for Health, London

3.2 Heart of Hounslow Centre for Health. Sketch of new health centre (left), and housing (right) with public piazza between.

Location and Context

The Heart of Hounslow Centre for Health is located on the Bath Road, a busy east-west artery that links the centre of Hounslow with Heathrow, a few miles to the west. The site for the new centre was part of an existing NHS primary care facility, the Thelma Golding Health Centre, a two-storey postwar building with the usual range of NHS Estates 'additions'. To the north of the site, on the opposite side of Bath Road, the character is low-rise suburban housing and to the south it is large-scale multi-storey offices along the equally busy Staines Road. To the west the immediate neighbour is St Mark's RC Church and School.

Within Hounslow, the building was conceived as a civic flagship, located on the edge of the town centre with its entrance facing a newly created public piazza. This new civic space has brought welcome regeneration to the area and with Hounslow town centre, Hounslow Central Station and local bus routes all nearby, an overall pleasant and convenient visiting environment has been created for the new health centre and housing.

The centre integrates well into its surroundings —stepping incrementally from three to five storeys along its north-south axis, thus reducing the bulk of the building in sympathy with the mixed scale of the local environment and creating a 'transition' between these scales. As part of the LIFT procurement, a new housing development helped to fund the health centre and was designed to sit alongside it, utilising the remaining site available when the existing buildings were demolished following decant into the new facility. This new housing, with its much-needed affordable and key worker accommodation in the area, was provided separately by a housebuilder, efficiently and at a scale that complements the new health centre.

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