Artesian House in Bermondsey Spa regeneration of the area south of London represents a new approach to mixed-use development with a health center and apartments for two companies, Dransfield Owens de Silva and Pollard Thomas Edwards.
Under the scheme commissioned by Hyde Housing Association, Dransfield Owens de Silva was responsible for the ground floor of the project, which provides accommodation for four separate health services.
A health centre for the local Primary Care Trust features four flexible multi-use rooms at the front of the building, with consulting and treatment rooms accessed via a curved corridor.
Accommodation for a sexual health and disease management clinic is wrapped around a private interior courtyard. The clinic has its own waiting room, which overlooks an adjacent park that has also been re-landscaped. A separate podiatry clinic has its own entrance space, reception and waiting room as well as purpose designed treatment facilities. The project also includes space for a privately-run dental practice, a separate chemist’s shop, community care accommodation and offices for PCT staff.
At the core of the project were sustainability principles that led to the flats being awarded an Ecohomes ‘Excellent’ rating. The health facilities were shortlisted in the best primary and social care category in the 2007 Building Better Health Awards.
The project features a district-based heating system, rainwater collection and greywater recycling. The health centre also features its own green roof.
“The original competition set by Southwark Council invited the teams to put forward a sustainability programme. Environmental sustainability informed the project from the outset,” said Wendy de Silva, director of Dransfield Owens de Silva.
“We were also very keen to do community sustainability. As part of the competition we made a significant contribution to the park which has got running tracks and areas to encourage people to exercise, because health and exercise go hand in hand with well being. We thought that would be a very positive connection.”
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