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Building Concepts
King's Health Partners – Cancer Centre at Guy's
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1.1
Villages
Overview
The purpose of the Cancer Centre is to consolidate
cancer treatment in one building to make treatment
easier and less stressful for patients. The design has
been developed around the needs of the patient as
well as the urban context.
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Village Concept
The building is a number of stacked ‘Villages’ each
relating to a particular patient need. There are three
Villages for treatment: Radiotherapy, One Stop (Out
Patients) and Chemotherapy. Each village will contain
most of the facilities that a patient needs for their
particular treatment; the villages will be relatively selfcontained and obviate the need for visiting multiple
departments around the Guy’s & St Thomas’ campus.
Private Patients Unit
Two additional villages complete the building. At
ground level is a ‘Welcome Village’ containing
common facilities and street and public related
activities. The upper four floors house a Private
Patients Unit.
Chemotherapy Village &
King’s Research
The Chemotherapy Village includes a research floor
for King’s College. This allows complete integration
of research and treatment, with a large proportion of
patients being involved in clinical trials and giving the
Cancer Centre a national / global significance in the
treatment of cancer. Patient outcomes are improved in
research environments, even for patients not directly
involved in clinical trials.
One-Stop Village
Radiotherapy Village
By breaking up the building into Villages, a human
scale is created; a patient will be treated in a two or
three storey village rather a fourteen storey tower. Each
village will be organised around a corner atrium that
links the levels and provides clear orientation.
Welcome Village
Section showing stacked Villages
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Organisation
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The plan form of the building is articulated into two
main parts. At the north is a Treatment zone that will
house the more clinical and technological facilities of
the Centre. At the south, facing the corner of Great
Maze Pond and Snowsfields, is a Care zone housing
the more social and interactive parts of the Cancer
Centre. The Treatment zone has an 8.9m structural
grid and will be highly serviced; the Care zone has a
6.3m grid and will be more lightly serviced.
The site is roughly triangular in plan and the Cancer
Centre takes this shape to reinforce the street
frontages and maximise the footprint so that a critical
number of clinical activities can be located on each
level.
Cores are at the perimeter to provide a clear floorplate
and so that the elements of the building are made
legible. The main lifts are in partly glazed shafts
adjacent to the corner of Snowsfields and Great Maze
Pond where they give access to an atrium space
at the main level of each Village. This atrium space
overlooks the streets and provides good connectivity
between the most public of the interior spaces with the
surrounding neighbourhood. It will give an open and
animated corner to the building.
The Care zone is at the south of the site. Here it can
benefit from the frontages to Great Maze Pond and
Snowsfields for open views and natural ventilation,
and it allows the Cancer Centre to open up to the
surrounding streets, in contrast to the closed and
defensive nature of many institutional buildings.
The Treatment zone is at the north in a location
appropriate to the more private and less open clinical
uses.
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Early sketch showing organisational principles of the scheme. The more clinical Treatment Zone is shown in grey and the less clinical Care Zone in yellow.
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Massing
The Care and Treatment zones are expressed as
separate volumes, while the service cores and
plant tower are distinct elements connected to the
Treatment zone at the north. This articulates the
building form and helps make it legible, whilst also
breaking up the mass.
Roof plant is located at the north of the building with
some being on a raised deck. This minimises the
height of the building along Snowsfields and fits with
the transition in height from the Shard to Guy’s Tower
to the Cancer Centre and on to the lower building to
the south.
The main level of each Village will have a generous
balcony that provides useable external space, defines
the ‘ground’ level of the village and articulates the
stacked Villages on the elevations. The balconies also
provide solar shading on the southern elevations. They
will have screen walls that contain the external spaces
to make them usable and less exposed. The screens
will be a mixture of translucent and clear glass with
some solid elements. Some areas of balcony will be
for maintenance access only and these will not have
screens.
The building appears within the Wider Consultation
Setting Area of the London Views Management
Framework for one view from Kenwood House. A
separate report on the topic by Capita Symonds is
submitted as part of this Planning Application.
The building sits very close to Borough Wing. This is
an under-utilised building as its floorplates do not suit
contemporary clinical needs and it may be removed in
the future. Parts of Borough Wing are unoccupied.
The balconies are about 2.5m wide and the
translucent and clear screens are about 2.4m high.
They are supported by Y shaped props set back from
the leading edge that allow them to be articulated as
separate elements.
The lowest balcony is two storeys above ground and
will define a human scale and degree of protection
as well as relate to the smaller buildings across
Snowsfields. This balcony has more solid screening
than the upper balconies, both to provide more privacy
and to define a base to the building.
At the top of the building is a louvre sunshade. It is of
similar components as the balconies but is lighter and
makes a positive termination against the sky, forming a
cornice / sunshade to express the building form.
In addition to the balconies, there will be external
terrace spaces that bring light into the building as well
providing outdoor space and articulating the elevations
of the building.
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The south corner of the building is cut back at both the
top and bottom to make gardens that break the mass
of the building.
View showing volume of Care Zone distinct from volume of
Clinical Zone to north with service cores beyond
Wider Setting Consultation Area
Wireline image of Proposed CTC Building
View from Kenwood from LVMF report by Capita Symonds
Aerial view with Care Zone to left and Clinical Zone to right with service cores beyond
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Massing
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View along Crosby Row
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Study model showing massing of main elements
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City Scale and Street Scale
The Shard
Guy's Tower
Cancer Centre
City scale section with the Shard, Guy's Tower and the Cancer Centre
The building has been designed so that it can be
appreciated at different scales and distances, from the
neighbourhood, and while walking by.
From the middle distance the balconies define the
Village scale of the scheme and significantly break up
the mass.
At a city scale and in long views, the 14 storey height
of the building provides a transition from the Shard
and Guys Tower to the lower rise areas to the south,
and defines a new gateway to the Guy’s campus.
The site is at the edge of an area designated for tall
buildings in the Draft Bankside Borough & London
Bridge SPD and is of a height to suit.
Up close at street level, the lowest balcony defines a
two storey base that relates to the scale of the street
and the nearby buildings. Views into the building, small
garden areas, an entrance canopy and court, visible
lifts and the detailing of the balconies and cladding will
give the scheme scale, grain and animation.
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The open nature of the ground floor facilities and the
cafe, as well as seating and cycle parking on the
pavements, will support active use of the streets.
Two storey scale at street level
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City Scale and Street Scale
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Balconies & Gardens
Patients may spend several hours at the Cancer
centre and access to outside space will be a benefit to
them as well as to staff.
Outside space will be provided by balconies at the
main Village levels and by gardens cut-out of the
volume of the building.
Generally the balconies will be accessible to patients
from the corner atria and from their north and east
ends. These portions of the balcony will be enclosed
with screens. The central parts of the balconies are for
maintenance only and have a simple handrail.
The gardens and balconies are an extension of the
interior and an integral part of the Cancer Centre.
View on balcony
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Plan showing balcony and garden areas on Level 5
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Level 5 Garden Terrace
View of Level 5 Balcony and Garden >
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