The new 274 hospital building will rise out of the park on approach with an undulating profile, making it instantly recognisable and a striking and iconic gateway to Liverpool.
Central to our idea was ensuring that the majority of rooms (whether for children or staff) enjoy park views, and that gardens and terraces are equally accessible to all.
Three open fingers radiate out from the atrium concourse, the distinctive entrance space, that forms the hospital’s public hub. These fingers of clinical space alternate with gardens, intertwining building and landscape.
The long elevations of the fingers are orientated broadly north-south, which is ideal for passive energy design, ensuring good daylight, ventilation and views to all patient areas, particularly the wards located on the upper two storeys. This passive design approach together with the green roofs and a number of active engineering systems underpin our sustainability strategy, ensuring that we contain the hospital’s energy consumption and CO2 emissions.
The new Alder Hey embraces international best practice, providing 21st century clinical functionality within a framework that is efficient and flexible. Our design reflects latest thinking on control of infection, patient dignity and privacy, segregation of patient, clinical and Facilities Management flows and technological advances. But just as key is the therapeutic environment it instills: the sense of ease and delight it gives visitors and staff through the quality of spaces, views, daylight and interaction it offers.
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