Circle Clinic
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Bath and North East Somerset BA2 7
Bath
United Kingdom
coordinates:
51.3641815 -2.3320525
Building names(s): Circle Clinic / Circle Bath
Architect/Designer: Foster & Partners
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Completion date: 2009
Function: hospital
Site area: 10,103m2Building area: 6,400 m2
Total height: 13.2m
No. car parking spaces: 155 incl. 2 disabled
No. outpatient consultation rooms: 9
No. inpatient bedrooms: 26 single, 2 twin/family
No. operating theatres: 4
Imaging Equipment including: MRI, CT-Scan, X-ray, Ultrasound
Construction Cost: £21million
Structure: Concrete, flat slabs
Materials:
Brick – lower ground floor
Glass/rainscreen panel system – ground floor
Mill finish Aluminium
Last modified: 18 August, 2010 | Suggested By LT
The important things, according to Foster partner Spencer de Grey, are “the clarity of the basic diagram, generous space, easy orientation, natural light and natural materials”. Corridors were abolished, where possible, and signs kept to a minimum, as the building is sufficiently clear for people to find their way about without them. Much of the floor is in oak, the architects having demonstrated that it would be no less hygienic than the more conventional lino. Lavender grows outside bedroom windows. Operating theatres, usually windowless, are here day-lit.
The impressive thing is that the building does exactly what its makers say it does. It provides obviously good things that somehow get missed out of other hospitals. If we want our surgeons to be wakeful and happy, which I think we do, it can only help if they can see clouds and sky and sunshine when they take a break. And it can only be beneficial if patients are calm rather than bewildered on arrival.