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The Orthopaedics Clinic is an extension of one of the oldest and most remarkable hospitals in London, St Bartholomew’s Hospital. The site is an existing out-of-use ambulance station in the area across from St Bartholomew’s Hospital. The clinic provides physiotherapy facilities, surgical procedures, examination rooms, and private patient rooms.
The building’s steel structure is extended on both sides while preserving the rectangular shape of the existing ambulance station. The building integrates the existing red brick ambulance station with the stone-clad St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
The site of a previous project, Smithfield Meat Market, provides the opportunity for excess bone waste from the market to be used as cladding for the façade, conveying material integration. This material integration was achieved by creating different texture and colour changes of the façade with different-sized bone pieces from granulated to crushed. The use of unconventional materials on the façade provides new possibilities and techniques in architecture, allowing for the re-use of organic waste material.
The main theme of the scheme is to make people ‘move’ as much as they can. As such, the main core element of the building is the spinal staircase, located in the central axis of the clinic.
The 3D printed detail model of the first-floor façade showcases the bone panel design and how it is seen externally. The model displays the bone extrusion details and window frame-wall detail.
The close-up view displays the re-use of organic bone wastes from the Smithfield Market as an architectural element on the façade through obtaining different colours, textures and patterns.
The final model showcases how the Orthopaedics Clinic has become a part of St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
The elevation view shows how the bones are used on the façade of each level, gradually decreasing while going through the upper floors.