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Ryhope Hospital
Sunderland, UK
Sector:
Mental Health
Client:
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
Role:
Lead Consultant, Architect and Landscape Architecture, BIM Coordinator
Value: £40m
Status:
Due on site 2012
The proposed redevelopment of the Ryhope General Hospital Site forms part of a wider scheme known as PrIDE (Providing Improved Mental Health and Learning Disability Environments in Sunderland and South Tyneside) for Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust. The PrIDE schemes are a response to the Trust’s strategic objective “to modernise and reform services, in line with local and national strategies and the needs of individuals and communities, providing first class care, in first class environments.” The sites encompasses a 140 bed inpatient facility for adults and older people as well as planned care facilities including Outpatients, Day Hospital and sessional work.
The name Ryhope has an assumed derivation from ‘Rive Hope’ and describes a riven valley, or dene, sharply cutting through the landscape to the sea. This image of a fluid dene is an important driver for the design concept. Aligned with the ‘flow’ concept the design developed by the clustering of inpatient wards around a new genius loci node at the Central Facilities building, the intention is that the campus will foster a sense of community in a cohesive environment that addresses both the public function of a hospital development, and generates pausing places from which to appreciate long views to the coast and the surrounding landscape. The layout of the buildings and their form will provide many intimate views within the development, to new destinations and landscape features created throughout the site.
