Birmingham Children’s Hospital
Sector:
Masterplanning
Client:
Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS
Foundation Trust
Role:
Consultant to Feasibility Study
Value:
£70m
Status:
Completed 2010
Located on the old General Hospital site in Birmingham city centre, the Children’s Hospital provides highly specialised paediatric services for patients from 0 to 18 years and regional to international catchment areas.
Much of the hospital’s built fabric remains as a legacy of Birmingham’s Victorian municipal development and therefore represents an important part of the city’s heritage. During its many years in operation a number of additions have been made to the original hospital buildings; often resulting in a reduced legibility and functionality on the site. In many cases the combination of site, budget and time constraints have resulted in short term solutions which serve to the detriment of the hospital, both in its context as a well functioning healthcare building and within the city’s urban landscape.
Medical Architecture have begun to provide a vision for the Hospital’s future masterplan and consider how site reorganisation could help the buildings to regain their important identity within the city, engage better with the visiting and passing public while comfortably accommodating the functional demands of a modern healthcare facility.
