Woolfson Medical Building

Reiach and Hall Architects, Glasgow, 2003

 

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Facade on University Avenue 

Gavin Frazer     Download Original

  • Facade on University Avenue    
  • Rear terrace    
  • Upper corridor    
  • Curved cherry wood wall, colonnade and central atrium    
  • Western red cedar blinds shade internal spaces    
  • Steel stair    
  • Site plan    
  • Ground floor plan    
  • First floor plan    
  • Second floor plan    
  • Third floor plan    
  • Section    
  • Working detail: Glass wall    
  • Working detail: Glass wall    

Purpose-built medical teaching facility in Glasgow's historic centre

Located at the apex of a triangular site, the Woolfson Medical Building’s main entrance slips beneath a curved steel and glass double-skinned wall. Behind the glass, western red cedar blinds shade the internal space and provide a certain dynamism to the street façade.

A triple height triangular atrium forms the social core of the building, admitting light deep into the plan via a glass panel roof. This is supported on structural glass beams, spanning up to 15 metres, which cast dappled light across the white-rendered walls of the space.

Spilling into the atrium, a common room/café also opens to the north-west, onto a ‘hortus medicus’, a living catalogue of medicinal plants. The third side of the atrium is occupied by a cherry wood clad elliptical lecture theatre.

Data

  • Begun: Oct 2001
  • Completed: Jan 2003
  • Floor area: 6,884m2
  • Sectors: Education, Healthcare
  • Total cost: £9M
  • Tender date: May 2000
  • Procurement: Scottish Building Contract with Quantities (April 1998 Revision)
  • Address: Faculty of Medicine, Wolfson Medical School Building, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom

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