{"id":594658,"date":"2020-11-19T18:14:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T18:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.architectsjournal.co.uk\/?p=594658"},"modified":"2022-04-04T15:28:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T14:28:42","slug":"building-study-maggies-leeds-by-heatherwick-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.architectsjournal.co.uk\/buildings\/building-study-maggies-leeds-by-heatherwick-studio","title":{"rendered":"Building study: Maggie\u2019s Leeds by Heatherwick Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">While the contentious term \u2018starchitect\u2019 rightly irritates and confounds in equal measure, it does suggest a certain commercial preoccupation with the glitz and glamour of buildings such as opera houses and art galleries. So, at one extreme, the more altruistic concerns of the healthcare sector provide a valuable opportunity for the suave, jet-setting architect to display worthier, more virtuous credentials. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Wren did this in the 1680s when he designed his Royal Hospital in Chelsea as a grand but more sombre version of the florid Baroque excesses he deployed elsewhere. And Frank Gehry\u2019s Hejmdal\u00a0cancer care centre in Aarhus, Denmark (2008), which stands as a Scandinavian version of our own Maggie\u2019s Centres, is a (slightly) calmer, more rational version of the Deconstructivist frenzy for which he is famed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" tabindex=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m14!1m8!1m3!1d1202.5586967506156!2d-1.5244592843555578!3d53.80669000157761!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x0%3A0x9a443b5d4c2d8bfd!2sMaggie's%20Yorkshire!5e1!3m2!1sen!2sch!4v1605697710352!5m2!1sen!2sch\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400px\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" aria-hidden=\"false\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span>\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"margin-top: 20px;\"><span class=\"s1\">At the other extreme, healthcare\u2019s same intuitive inclination towards humane benevolence has also seemingly inspired great architects to create stunning works. Returning to Wren, his sumptuous Greenwich Hospital (1696 onwards) easily stands alongside St Paul\u2019s as among his greatest achievements. And, while Gehry\u2019s tortuously contorted Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas (2010) takes his predilection for geometric contrivance to its limit, its crumbling, dislocated volumes provide, arguably, a powerful metaphor for progressive cognitive collapse. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">So it is with some excitement that we welcome the first healthcare project from Heatherwick Studio. Maggie\u2019s Leeds is the latest in what is now a long line of 26 high-profile architectural commissions for the innovative cancer care centres, which seek to domesticise and deinstitutionalise palliative care for both patients and their families.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Heatherwick Studio, meanwhile, is famed for its illusory, sculptural and almost theatrical flamboyance, as is evident on projects such as London\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.architectsjournal.co.uk\/buildings\/coal-drops-yard-heatherwick-studio-raises-the-roof\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coal Drops Yard<\/a>, New York\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.architectsjournal.co.uk\/buildings\/step-up-heatherwick-studio-completes-vessel-in-new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vessel<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.architectsjournal.co.uk\/archive\/amazing-photos-heatherwicks-shanghai-pavilion-completes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UK Pavilion<\/a> at the 2010 Shanghai Expo. So how would it reconcile its innate hyper-expressionist and hyper-exhibitionist design instincts with the more empathetic and intimate approach required for palliative care? Would showmanship or sobriety win the day?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-594761 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/emap-nibiru-prod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18121800\/Heatherwick-Studio_Maggies-Leeds_%C2%A9HuftonCrow_002-1024x846.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18121800\/Heatherwick-Studio_Maggies-Leeds_%C2%A9HuftonCrow_002-1024x846.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18121800\/Heatherwick-Studio_Maggies-Leeds_%C2%A9HuftonCrow_002-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18121800\/Heatherwick-Studio_Maggies-Leeds_%C2%A9HuftonCrow_002-768x634.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18121800\/Heatherwick-Studio_Maggies-Leeds_%C2%A9HuftonCrow_002-230x190.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><br \/>\nMaggie\u2019s Leeds forms part of the city\u2019s St James\u2019s University Hospital \u2013 Jimmy\u2019s. The folksy nickname conceals a formidable medical establishment. St James\u2019s is Europe\u2019s largest teaching hospital and, even before the Maggie\u2019s Centre opened this summer, it was already home to Europe\u2019s largest specialist cancer care centre. Equally, like most British hospitals, it occupies a number of large, indifferent, institutional blocks that have expanded across the site over\u00a0time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The centre has arguably been built on the most interesting spot within the hospital precinct. With much of the site already colonised by buildings and emergency access routes, all that was available was an awkward, wedge-shaped grassy hill beside the hospital car park. Straddled by roads on two sides and with a precipitous 6m drop across its gradient, it was the last patch of greenery on an otherwise hard-landscaped site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-594762 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/emap-nibiru-prod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18121817\/Heatherwick-Studio_Maggies-Leeds_%C2%A9HuftonCrow_005-1024x965.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18121817\/Heatherwick-Studio_Maggies-Leeds_%C2%A9HuftonCrow_005-1024x965.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18121817\/Heatherwick-Studio_Maggies-Leeds_%C2%A9HuftonCrow_005-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18121817\/Heatherwick-Studio_Maggies-Leeds_%C2%A9HuftonCrow_005-768x724.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18121817\/Heatherwick-Studio_Maggies-Leeds_%C2%A9HuftonCrow_005-230x217.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><br \/>\nAnd, while it presented obvious constraints with regard to levels and layout, it also offered some intriguing possibilities. From a practical point of view, the site sits on an emergency blue route, which effectively allowed frictionless vehicular access during construction, an asset readily exploited by the building\u2019s prefabricated <\/span><span class=\"s1\">construction\u00a0method.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">But, more intriguingly, the site was in effect a garden oasis in the middle of a sea of tarmac and concrete and, from its highest points, offered stunning views out over the Yorkshire Dales. \u2018It was the only bit of green space on the site, so we were determined not to take the garden away,\u2019 explains Nick Ling, technical design lead at Heatherwick Studio. \u2018So many buildings are separated from their gardens; this isn\u2019t what we wanted. We wanted the building itself to be part of and almost take the form of a garden \u2013 one that occupies the site, is full of local native species and is an extension of the rich Yorkshire woodlands that surround the city.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-594766 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/emap-nibiru-prod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18121923\/Heatherwick-Studio_Maggies-Leeds_%C2%A9HuftonCrow_017-970x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"970\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18121923\/Heatherwick-Studio_Maggies-Leeds_%C2%A9HuftonCrow_017-970x1024.jpg 970w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18121923\/Heatherwick-Studio_Maggies-Leeds_%C2%A9HuftonCrow_017-284x300.jpg 284w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18121923\/Heatherwick-Studio_Maggies-Leeds_%C2%A9HuftonCrow_017-768x811.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18121923\/Heatherwick-Studio_Maggies-Leeds_%C2%A9HuftonCrow_017-218x230.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><br \/>\nIn the finished building this emerges as the main conceptual driver for the design. For, with typical surrealist aplomb, Heatherwick has created a whimsical knuckle of hanging, sloping Babylonian tree houses planted right in the middle of one of the busiest hospitals in Europe. The centre takes the form of three timber pavilions, each on different levels and radially arranged around a central \u2018heart\u2019 space. The pavilions contain the various forms of counselling rooms, ranging from group to one-on-one consultation, these being the clinical crux of the Maggie\u2019s approach. Around and between the pavilions flow ancillary communal spaces, including a library, meeting and kitchen areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">So, while aligned to angular geometry, on plan the layout resembles a webbed three-leaf clover, the spaces between each leaf filled by a mass that oozes from the trio of cores. And the organic allusions do not end here. The building is principally a timber-frame structure constructed entirely off-site (hence the expediency of the blue route), built on a concrete slab and up against a retaining wall.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While the site presented obvious constraints with regard to levels and layout, it also offered some intriguing possibilities<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Both internally and externally, its most distinctive features are its ribbed striations of slender glulam fins, which elegantly enshroud the building in a skeletal timber veil. Each fin is inclined, then curves outwards at its peak, embellishing the building with the vascularity of a tree trunk that rises and bursts into a crown of\u00a0branches. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The effect is most successfully realised inside the building in the central and communal spaces. Here the ribs crawl up each surface like engineered vines, fusing wall and ceiling together into one organic canopy and clasping spaces with a sinewy embrace. This mannered naturalism is immediately disarming, fully complying with the Maggie\u2019s mantra of intimacy and warmth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-594767 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/emap-nibiru-prod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18121944\/Heatherwick-Studio_Maggies-Leeds_%C2%A9HuftonCrow_019-833x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"833\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18121944\/Heatherwick-Studio_Maggies-Leeds_%C2%A9HuftonCrow_019-833x1024.jpg 833w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18121944\/Heatherwick-Studio_Maggies-Leeds_%C2%A9HuftonCrow_019-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18121944\/Heatherwick-Studio_Maggies-Leeds_%C2%A9HuftonCrow_019-768x944.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18121944\/Heatherwick-Studio_Maggies-Leeds_%C2%A9HuftonCrow_019-187x230.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 833px) 100vw, 833px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><br \/>\nYet it also conveys a sense of drama and movement, one compounded by the multiple (and intriguing) internal levels, all linked by an operatic whorl of staggered timber staircases. From top to bottom, these staircases wriggle through the interior with a beguiling collapse. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Light is a key component of the spatial experience the interiors offer. Soft artificial lighting adds a sleek undertone to the recesses between the ribs and bathes the pale timber surfaces in a warm glow, while natural light abounds and is admitted through generous expanses of clear glazing. The highest instances of these provide sumptuous views out over the Dales and, by essentially projecting long-range vistas of natural terrain deep inside the building, will doubtless provide recuperative and psychological support to the centre\u2019s users. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">But the glazing also serves a more immediate purpose: to ensure that the gardens and planting that surround the building and colonise its various staggered terraces can also be viewed constantly from the inside too. Virtually every inch of the remaining site curtilage is richly planted with shrubs, flowers and trees. While the building\u2019s bulbous metallic eaves detract a little from this naturalistic narrative externally, the key imagery of an overgrown and partially submerged tree house is compelling. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The roofs of the two highest pavilions are also effusively planted, despite only being accessible for maintenance purposes, which, while understandable for budgetary reasons, seems a little bit of shame. But any disappointment at their inaccessibility is more than rectified by the charming, sun-drenched little terrace squeezed on to the roof of the third pavilion. With its palpable sense of naturalistic enclosure and optimisation of an awkward, leftover space, it provides an apt metaphor for the entire\u00a0building.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-594768 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/emap-nibiru-prod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18121957\/Heatherwick-Studio_Maggies-Leeds_%C2%A9HuftonCrow_020-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18121957\/Heatherwick-Studio_Maggies-Leeds_%C2%A9HuftonCrow_020-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18121957\/Heatherwick-Studio_Maggies-Leeds_%C2%A9HuftonCrow_020-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18121957\/Heatherwick-Studio_Maggies-Leeds_%C2%A9HuftonCrow_020-153x230.jpg 153w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><br \/>\nIt is a building that shows Heatherwick Studio has equipped itself well in the showmanship versus sobriety stakes, for it has a copious amount of both. In its obvious reliance on nature, as witnessed through its materials, form, extensive planting, engagement with surrounding landscape and engaging use of light, it seeks a kinship of human intimacy with its users and thereby empathises with the sharp emotional traumas into which they may be plunged. Ling notes that Maggie\u2019s briefs are \u2018as much an exercise in psychology as they are in architecture\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">In its obvious reliance on nature, this is a building that seeks a kinship of human intimacy with its users<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">But in so many others ways, from the melodramatic manipulation of its descending gradient to the obvious glee with which the building executes its naturalistic metaphors, this too, like so much of Heatherwick\u2019s work, is a performance building which explicitly seeks to use its engineering to entertain and enthral. In casting nature in the starring role of ultimate care-giver and in crafting an empathetic three-dimensional stage set where her tender ministrations can be dispensed, Heatherwick has once again reaffirmed his status as architecture\u2019s consummate surrealist\u00a0storyteller.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"inline_image fullsize image_size_full\" data-attachment=\"594742\">\n<p class=\"picture\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-594742 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/emap-nibiru-prod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18110413\/DWGS-HeatherwickStudios-1024x917.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18110413\/DWGS-HeatherwickStudios-1024x917.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18110413\/DWGS-HeatherwickStudios-300x269.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18110413\/DWGS-HeatherwickStudios-768x687.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18110413\/DWGS-HeatherwickStudios-230x206.png 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"p1\">Architect\u2019s view<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Maggie\u2019s was an exceptional client, which was very open with its brief. The charity wanted a centre that felt like a home that visitors would not have dared build themselves. This allowed us as designers to explore several themes. As the site was also the last patch of greenery on the hospital grounds, we wanted to ensure the building would provide more green space than it took away, both for visitors and those walking by.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">This was the studio\u2019s first healthcare project and, in our initial research phase, one thing that seemed to be missing when we looked at hospital environments was the human scale and the use of sustainable\u00a0materials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">When designing healthcare spaces, there are so many different aspects to consider. The staff are amazing and the tools and equipment are changing all the time, but so much more can be done to the actual physical environment that it can often feel neglected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Drawing upon the Maggie\u2019s philosophy and the belief that great design can help people feel better, the studio wanted to avoid any hallmarks of a clinical healthcare environment. In addition to the inherent homeliness of the timber structure and comforting nature of the gardens, this philosophy was applied to even the smallest of details. Furniture and finishes were equally given consideration. Door widths throughout the centre were widened to accommodate wheelchair access. Special ironmongery and light switches were selected for ease of use by wheelchair users and individuals with limited physical dexterity. Rather than using cold and harsh stainless-steel bathroom fittings, which are so common in hospital environments, we chose to use wood, which is organic and warm to touch. The studio also designed two tables, inspired by the building\u2019s timber fins and built from cork and engineered beech timber, which reside at the centre\u2019s\u00a0heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">For us, it always came back to the language of making Maggie\u2019s Leeds feel like a home and of ensuring accessibility. Cancer is a very emotive topic and we wanted to provide spaces that provided respite for people to cope with the disease and met their needs in all respects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Mat Cash, partner and group leader, Heatherwick Studio<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"inline_image fullsize image_size_full\" data-attachment=\"594743\">\n<p class=\"picture\"><span class=\"fullsize\" title=\"Show fullscreen\">\u00a0<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-594743 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/emap-nibiru-prod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18110422\/DWGS-HeatherwickStudios2-1024x368.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18110422\/DWGS-HeatherwickStudios2-1024x368.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18110422\/DWGS-HeatherwickStudios2-300x108.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18110422\/DWGS-HeatherwickStudios2-768x276.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18110422\/DWGS-HeatherwickStudios2-230x83.png 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"p1\">Client\u2019s view<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">At Maggie\u2019s, we want to create spaces that enable people to feel comfortable and safe, but not in a patronising way. We want to inspire, empower and enable people to feel hopeful, no matter what they may face. The brief includes all of the physical spaces we need the centre to contain: the kitchen \u2013 the heart of the building; larger rooms for group activity; smaller rooms for more intimate discussions; and nooks and crannies (not corridors) providing informal spaces to chat, to pause, to be. But, in addition to the practical elements is the real brief: to create a space that enables people \u2018to breathe a little easier\u2019; a space that genuinely helps to heal. This, we understand, is a big ask.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">The site was not only challenging in its location, neighbours (a multistorey car park) and gradient (6m), it was the only green area left on the whole of the hospital site. Landscape and gardens are hugely important to Maggie\u2019s, but never more so than here. Preserving and enhancing the green area, creating a magnificent garden to distract people from the complexities and haphazardness of the hospital campus, were\u00a0essential.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Delivering the brief and creating the centre required precision and skill, facilitated through our construction manager, Sir Robert McAlpine, which commissioned specialist craftsmen and materials from across the UK and Europe. The outcome is a spectacular space that is a joy for centre visitors and staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Sarah Beard, business development director, Maggie\u2019s<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"inline_image fullsize image_size_full\" data-attachment=\"594744\">\n<p class=\"picture\"><span class=\"fullsize\" title=\"Show fullscreen\">\u00a0<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-594744 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/emap-nibiru-prod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18110431\/DWGS-HeatherwickStudios3-1024x403.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18110431\/DWGS-HeatherwickStudios3-1024x403.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18110431\/DWGS-HeatherwickStudios3-300x118.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18110431\/DWGS-HeatherwickStudios3-768x302.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18110431\/DWGS-HeatherwickStudios3-230x90.png 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"p1\">Engineer\u2019s view<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Maggie\u2019s Leeds was an opportunity for AKT II to create something very special alongside Heatherwick Studio. The form of the building and Heatherwick\u2019s architectural vision required a structure that is pure, yet complex enough to carry the extensive landscaping sitting on the roof. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">The structure required cantilever timber fins to work compositely through shear keys with the cross-laminated roof slabs and walls that form the building\u2019s three pods. The spans of both the slabs and the fins were pushed to their limits to allow the transfer of heavy landscape loads and maintain the open, welcoming space that Maggie\u2019s required. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">The load path associated with the large cantilevers was such that specific fins were required to carry large shear forces, ideally suited to material strengths more akin to timber hardwoods. However, construction of a hardwood frame would have been expensive and unviable. So, in collaboration with timber structure manufacturer Blumer Lehmann, we explored engineering a timber composite, where a Birch ply core was seamlessly crafted into the high-stress zone of softwood fins. This innovative approach resulted in an optimal economic solution where use of materials is driven by the engineering needs of the design. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">The small site also posed significant design and logistical challenges. With a substantial slope and depth of made ground, it was imperative to minimise self-weight and to achieve an even load distribution in the foundations. With large prefabricated elements and the inherent stability of the structural form, erection of the superstructure was achieved in just three weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Andrew Garland, director, AKT II<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"inline_image fullsize image_size_full\" data-attachment=\"594745\">\n<p class=\"picture\"><span class=\"fullsize\" title=\"Show fullscreen\">\u00a0<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-594745 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/emap-nibiru-prod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18110441\/DWGS-HeatherwickStudios4-1024x541.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18110441\/DWGS-HeatherwickStudios4-1024x541.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18110441\/DWGS-HeatherwickStudios4-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18110441\/DWGS-HeatherwickStudios4-768x406.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18110441\/DWGS-HeatherwickStudios4-230x122.png 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"p1\">Working detail<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The glazed fa\u00e7ade was conceived as a recessive element. Frameless structural glazing incorporates large, thin-frame sliding doors to open up the fa\u00e7ade and encourage natural ventilation. The structural glass is supported on the concrete raft foundation and held at the top in a recessed deflection head channel within the CLT deck. This allows the timber structure to flex under live loads without affecting the glass. The largest of the panels are 3.1m high by 2.8m wide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Nick Ling, technical design lead, Heatherwick Studio<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"inline_image fullsize image_size_full\" data-attachment=\"594746\">\n<p class=\"picture\"><span class=\"fullsize\" title=\"Show fullscreen\">\u00a0<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-594746 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/emap-nibiru-prod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18110454\/DWGS-HeatherwickStudios5-1024x629.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18110454\/DWGS-HeatherwickStudios5-1024x629.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18110454\/DWGS-HeatherwickStudios5-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18110454\/DWGS-HeatherwickStudios5-768x471.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.rt.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/18110454\/DWGS-HeatherwickStudios5-230x141.png 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"p1\">Project data<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Start on site<\/b><\/span> <span class=\"s3\">\u200a<\/span><span class=\"s2\">May 2018<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s4\"><b>Completion<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> \u200aJune 2020<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>Gross internal floor area<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s2\"> \u200a462m\u00b2<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>Construction cost<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s2\"> \u200aUndisclosed<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s4\"><b>Client<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> \u200aMaggie\u2019s Centres<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>Structural engineer<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s2\"> \u200aAKT II<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>MEP consultant<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s2\"> \u200aMax Fordham<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s4\"><b>Cost consultant<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> \u200aRobert Lombardelli Partnership<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>CDM co-ordinator<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s2\"> \u200aCDM Scotland<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>Approved building inspector<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s2\"> \u200aButler &amp; Young<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s4\"><b>Construction manager<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> \u200aSir Robert McAlpine<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>Landscape architect<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s2\"> \u200aBalston Agius<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s4\"><b>Fire consultant<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> \u200aOlsson Fire &amp; Risk<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>Timber structure manufacturer \u200a<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s2\">Blumer-Lehmann<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>Lighting design<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s2\"> \u200aLight Bureau<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"p1\">Sustainability data<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>Percentage of floor area with daylight factor\u00a0&gt;2%<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> \u200a69% (<i>much of the floor area of the main spaces is &gt;2%, counselling rooms generally have lower daylight levels<\/i>)<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b>Percentage of floor area with daylight factor &gt;5%<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> \u200a34% (<i>about half of the floor area &gt;2% is also &gt;5% <\/i>)<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>On-site energy generation<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s3\"> \u200aNil<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b>Heating and hot water load<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> \u200a63.4 kWh\/m\u00b2\/yr (<i>estimated<\/i>)<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b>Total energy load \u200a<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\">76.07 kWh\/m\u00b2\/yr (<i>predicted: 25.34kWh\/m\u00b2\/yr not including equipment<\/i>)<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>Annual CO2 emissions<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s3\"> \u200a26.1 kg\/m\u00b2<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b>Airtightness at 50Pa<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> \u200a2 m\u00b3\/hr\/m\u00b2 (<i>measured<\/i>)<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>Overall area-weighted U-value<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s3\"> \u200a0.36 W\/m\u00b2K<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>Predicted design life<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s3\"> \u200a60 years<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the contentious term \u2018starchitect\u2019 rightly irritates and confounds in equal measure, it does suggest a certain commercial preoccupation with the glitz and glamour of buildings such as opera houses and art galleries. 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