Quick and Dirty Update

After some rationalising of the plans, here's the latest update.

On the top floor we have the medical centre, arranged a central corridor with glazed partitions. At present there is access to a fire escape across the roof of the storey below, which needs refining



The first floor will contain the waiting area and admin for the medical centre. The cafe might also end up here, using the outdoor space created by the large forms to present an outdoor terrace.



The ground floor needs a great deal of work, but is likely to house the support zone and general office. I'm currently struggling with deciding whether the nursery would be better off on the ground floor - or to swap it with the cafe directly above and use the outdoor space as a play area.



This section drives through the main stair/lift core atrium and shows the relative arrangements of floors and how the building deals with level changes.



Lastly we've got a quick and dirty pair of visuals. This first one is the view from the canal and shows the external space created by the overlapping modules. Again, that shaded roof terrace below the top floor could be the key to the whole scheme.



And here's the view to the main entrance from the middle of the masterplan. See how the eye is drawn to the main entrance by the path and the silhouette of the uppermost module against the sky.

Reshuffle

I've had a reshuffle with the arrangement of the "keys" - now the uppermost one has the widest overhang to accentuate the sense of space beneath it over the entrance and the towpath. Here's an aerial view, showing the atrium:



This aerial view shows the spaces also create a external spaces which may be useful:



And lastly that cantilever over the towpath creates the dynamic "gateway" I've been banging on about without actually all the mucking about bridging over the lock.




I'm really going to push the form on this one, key precents that spring to mind are the soon to be completed Museum of Liverpool:



Good Old Herzog & de Meuron:



And closer to home, the Leeds Museum Discovery Centre. This one in particular has that emphasis of a chunky glazed deep reveal at one end of the box, which in turn is mounted on a podium of engineering blockwork. Would definitely make a good precedent for the planners!