When this happens not only are exquisite solutions found, but there is positive change enacted through the engagement itself..
This is a hospital which, according to Bookings Team Leader Adam Chivers, patients often comment, ‘looks like a five star hotel.’.With its distinctive black glass, basket weave cladding, the hospital’s exterior panels seem to reflect the expansive movement of sky and clustered cloud formations from every angle.
It’s an aesthetic which manifests Bryden Wood’s belief that a hospital occupies a special status of building in society, one with such a substantial level of importance and value that it deserves to be signified in the very appearance of the structure.The physicality of the Circle Reading building is both luminous and reflective, fundamentally optimistic feeling, but also discreet and secure.‘We were able, with Circle Reading, to give the building an aesthetic which was beyond purely functional,’ says Wood..
Beyond its striking glass exterior, lies the building’s central atrium - a sleek, communal space, three stories high and full of light, which houses a reception and cafe, accompanying tables, leather sofas and modern artwork.It’s an area Orthopaedic Surgeon, Raj Goel jokingly, but admiringly, refers to as ‘the foyer.’ ‘Patients say, “Wow, what a great place to work in,”’ he says..
The other Circle staff members seem to agree, united in their appreciation for this particularly special aspect of the hospital.
Maswiken enthuses about the sense of cleanliness one is given, casting a view across the space.However, regardless of the country, there are a few elements needed to make the shift to industrialised construction work: purpose, government support, academia, the involvement of young people, training, and complementary parts of the ecosystem - including industry and finance.. Education is a hugely important factor and Amy Marks has now written an eight-week course curriculum for Columbia University.
It covers not only prefab but other industrialised construction topics such as how to look at MEP assemblies, manufacturing, automation, robotics, machine learning, AI, and construction platforms.It’s unlike any other course in the world, and that’s the problem, Marks says.
There isn’t anywhere for people to go to learn these things, so we can’t expect them to finish their education and be ready to enter the space.That’s why our team at Autodesk is creating a knowledge centre - to pass on what they know through the software, through the technology..
(Editor: Affordable Towels)