Thursday, May 12, 2011

King Edward VII Memorial Hospital In Hamilton, Bermuda






Designed by architects Swanke Hayden Connell, King Edward VII Memorial Hospital is located in Hamilton, Bermuda. hospital plans around a donut-shaped imprint of a four-story central atrium, the heart of a new hospital facility. Patient care is fragmented into four fingerprint "translate" the blocks to reduce the flow of compressed three-storey element. Atrium space ends skylight or lantern that is very accurate to provide shading to reduce the influence of the Sun lobby atrium space and its users.

The concept of the facade of the building was developed using a local architectural language of the island of Bermuda, a previous reference. Through a detailed analysis of the built landscape of Bermuda SHCA has been identified with the architectural language of the "floating pavilion in the landscape, which gave inspiration to the architectural language and the concept of hospital volume.

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