Aldershot Centre for Health
Aldershot Health Centre
Client: Wilky Healthcare (Aldershot) Ltd/Alfred McAlpine Plc
Project Value: £27m
SR Architects were appointed as Architects and Lead Consultants for this £27M scheme, which is believed to be the largest primary care health centre to be constructed in the
The development, which is in excess of 13,500m2, brings together some 28 different user groups and departments of various types of healthcare delivery into a contemporary facility for Blackwater Valley & Hart PCT, the MOD and Frimley Park Hospital NHS Trust.
The four-storey building is located at the top of a hill and comprises clinical accommodation over the first three storeys and office and administrative accommodation on the top floor which, through a ring of clerestory glazing, commands outstanding views of the town and the adjacent Army land. The sloping site was used to advantage in the design to create the main entrance at first floor level, thus lowering the perceived height and size of the building and also to aid wayfinding by allowing visitors to logically progress up or down by only one level to find the necessary clinical department.
Ample daylighting and natural ventilation were key objectives of the environmental design of the facility. A large central void in the building hosting a massive roof lantern building allows natural daylight to reach each floor level and to flood the main waiting hall at the entrance level filtering down into the lowest parts of the building via glass block walls and other open floor voids.
The building opened to the public in August 2008.
