Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital combines concrete and brick with colourful details and big windows
Sheppard Robson and John Copper Architecture have completed a children's hospital in Johannesburg, which features brick facades and large windows that allow patients to take in the landscaping.
The building is centrally located within the University of the Witwatersrand's education campus in the Parktown neighbourhood, enabling it to provide the region's children with a wide range of treatments. Facilities for surgery are also included, and the hospital is able to support paediatric research and training.
The building's design avoids grouping all of the departments together in a single box, and instead divides the floorplan into six wings housing various specialties that each offer a sense of connection with the outdoors.
A central circulation spine extends along the length of the building, connecting with three junctions that branch off on either side to provide efficient access to the six wings, which are arranged over two floors. "By breaking down the mass of the building into six elements, the design has a domestic, human scale that is reassuring and familiar to children," added the studio, which has previously designed a university science facility in England featuring a wavy aluminium wall.
Other concrete elements frame windows that are shielded behind horizontal screens. These solar shades are treated in bright colours that help to lend the different departments a distinct personality.
Internally, Sheppard Robson's interior design group ID:SR and l...
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