The Waldron

The 6,029m² health centre comprising of four GP practices, ante/post-natal care, community dentistry, sexual health and a flexible suite is organised around two courtyard gardens and a large foyer.

Clinical suites are arranged in two wings- one north, one south around a central 5-storey foyer. The architects generated the plan by considering the journey of the patient from entrance foyer to clinical room through five types of spaces.

The z-shaped building frames two contrasting spaces, the existing allotments to the south east and the new square to the north west. The development is bounded by streets on three sides and sits on the western end of a pedestrian route that links local amenities.

The concrete framed health centre is clad in a veneered rainscreen, which gives it a cherry wood colour. Bronze-anodised windows are variously proud, flush and recessed.

The square and west façade are framed by a canopy, concrete arcade and screen, which provide a counterpoint in scale and material to the building mass. On the canopy are storey high graphics reading: WALDRON, HEALTH and CENTRE. Seen together they constitute a sign, but seen apart they become part of the composition of each elevation and help form the character of the whole development.