Maggie’s Yorkshire design by Heatherwick Studio
Architect: Heatherwick Studio
Location: in West Yorkshire, England
Year: 2015
all image: Heatherwick Studio
Architect: Heatherwick Studio
Location: in West Yorkshire, England
Year: 2015
all image: Heatherwick Studio
One of Europe’s largest cancer hospitals, the St James’s Institute of Oncology, opened in Leeds in 2007. Maggie’s, an organisation which provides free support for people living with cancer, invited the studio to design a new centre within the hospital campus.
Although this is one of the largest centres to be built, the brief was to create a space that feels informal and domestic.
At the same time as being a quiet domestic space for its users on the inside, there was an opportunity for the building’s exterior to offer something positive and hopeful to people passing by.
Surrounded by the huge and complex medical machine for healing we wanted to capture the positive and therapeutic experience of plants and see if it could be possible to make a whole building out of a garden.
We wondered if we could make a building from containers, each holding a piece of garden. The design formed itself as a collection of garden pots defining a building by enclosing a series of spaces between them.
The individual pots and planting are of differing proportions bringing the planting into and over the building itself. The most private spaces are created within the containers themselves. Between them are only the minimum flat sheets of glass necessary to weather protect and enclose the internal space.
Source: Heatherwick Studiom i l i m e t d e s i g n – W h e r e t h e c o n v e r g e n c e o f u n i q u e c r e a t i v e s
Architect: Heatherwick Studio
Location: in West Yorkshire, England
Year: 2015
all image: Heatherwick Studio
One of Europe’s largest cancer hospitals, the St James’s Institute of Oncology, opened in Leeds in 2007. Maggie’s, an organisation which provides free support for people living with cancer, invited the studio to design a new centre within the hospital campus.
Although this is one of the largest centres to be built, the brief was to create a space that feels informal and domestic.
At the same time as being a quiet domestic space for its users on the inside, there was an opportunity for the building’s exterior to offer something positive and hopeful to people passing by.
Surrounded by the huge and complex medical machine for healing we wanted to capture the positive and therapeutic experience of plants and see if it could be possible to make a whole building out of a garden.
We wondered if we could make a building from containers, each holding a piece of garden. The design formed itself as a collection of garden pots defining a building by enclosing a series of spaces between them.
The individual pots and planting are of differing proportions bringing the planting into and over the building itself. The most private spaces are created within the containers themselves. Between them are only the minimum flat sheets of glass necessary to weather protect and enclose the internal space.
Source: Heatherwick Studiom i l i m e t d e s i g n – W h e r e t h e c o n v e r g e n c e o f u n i q u e c r e a t i v e s
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