Small Animal Hospital
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Treatment centre for the University of Glasgow's Faculty of Vetinary Medicine
The hospital forms part of the University of Glasgow’s faculty of veterinary medicine. It is focused around a central treatment hub with facilities that include day-care, intensive care, operation suites, diagnostics and oncology. Teaching and office spaces occupy the upper level, with views over the estate.
Set into the landscape, a large grassed roof supported by a steel frame ramps over the plan. It rises from the ground at the west end of the site to create a two-storey, east-facing facade. The roof is crowned with a faceted cupola and its perimeter is part-enclosed by a gabion wrap. Behind this, elevations are formed with strips of grey fibre-cement cladding.
One corner is marked by V-shaped steel columns that support the roof above an empty segment of the building’s footprint, creating a canopy for open-air dog runs.
The hospital’s entrance, in the north facade, squats under the lower part of the slope and features intersecting planes of glass, rock and render and a cube-shaped portal door.
Data
- Begun: Oct 2007
- Completed: Apr 2009
- Floor area: 4,500m2
- Sector: Healthcare
- Total cost: £15M
- Procurement: Traditional JCT
- CO2 Emissions: 241,219kg/m2/year
- Address: Garscube Campus, Glasgow, G20 0TH, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Archial
- Client: University of Glasgow
- Structural engineer: Beattie Watkinson
- Main contractor: John Graham (Dromore)
- Landscape architect: City Design Co-operative
- Acoustic consultant: New Acoustics
- M&E consultant: Hulley
- Quantity surveyor: Armour Construction Consultants