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Akerman
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Akerman
London, United Kingdom
YEAR
2012
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
BUDGET
$10M - 50M
The Akerman accommodates a range of services including GP surgeries, dentistry, childrens’ services, midwifery, primary care and community health services. The centre also provides a base for Lambeth’s School Nurses, Health Visitors and District Nurses and the Council’s Adults and Community Services team.
Akerman is as much about the street and the city as it is about a building. Emphasis is placed on the extent to which the Centre can take on the mantle of a civic building in its internal morphology, its outward scale, form and materiality and in the contribution it makes to the public realm.
The context is an eclectic and fragmented mix of building stock from the 19th Century, the 1960s and the 1990s. Our 4-storey building with its homogenous 80m- façade repairs the southern half of Patmos Road and frames the east side of Hammelton Green.
On the ground, first and second floors, it is rectangular in plan. The third floor describes an extended cruciform shape. This same motif is evident in all four elevations. The building is a hybrid, taking its cue from both the plan form and massing of a minster and the homogenous façade of an 18th Century London terrace.
At street level windows are set in a storey-high podium of perforated Corten, a frieze of ‘paintings’ by artist Daniel Sturgis whose perforations provide ventilation to an underground car park. Together the windows and artwork form a cradle for the ivory-coloured brickwork above. Similarly coloured mortar and masonry copings homogenise to create a monolithic form offset by the roughly shaped and heavily textured brickwork.
The main entrance is marked by a residual transept and crossing comprising of a steel and glass port-cochere, a 4th storey of brickwork and a crown of letters A K E R M A N. On either side the Corten screen steps gradually down to the entrance to exaggerate the relative scale of the port cochere and weight of brickwork overhead. Inside, the foyer bisects the plan, extending the trajectory of Tindal Street through to a second entrance that will lead in due course into a new cul-de-sac on the north side of Hammelton Green. The foyer itself is divided into four quadrants, one of which incorporates the main stair. Overhead, four storeys above the foyer, a cruciform skylight illuminates a painted frieze by artist Paul Morrison. The north and south gables repeat the cruciform motif with a third blind storey of brickwork crowned by the letters H E A L T H.
Inside, the building is efficiently organised into three bands of cellular accommodation. The 16m deep floorplate creates naturally lit east and west-facing accommodation between which ancillary spaces such as toilets, stores, stairs and lifts are located. The central position of the foyer, stairs and lift, permits efficient circulation to each clinical cluster.
The ground floor is arranged with a flexible use suite north of the foyer and suite of meeting rooms to the south overlooking Patmos Road. An information reception point within the foyer is linked for ease of management to the flexible use suite reception and waiting area. Two GP practices share the first floor, a third shares the second floor with a multi purpose clinical suite. Each floor shares a linear waiting space adjacent to the central stair and lifts. Both waiting spaces enjoy views over Hammelton Green.
The recessed top floor consists of open plan office accommodation, staff showers and changing rooms, small meeting rooms, a library, staff room and roof terrace. The shallow plan dual aspect daylit offices overlook east and west facing roof gardens.
Akerman has been assessed to have a BREEAM excellent rating.
Akerman is as much about the street and the city as it is about a building. Emphasis is placed on the extent to which the Centre can take on the mantle of a civic building in its internal morphology, its outward scale, form and materiality and in the contribution it makes to the public realm.
The context is an eclectic and fragmented mix of building stock from the 19th Century, the 1960s and the 1990s. Our 4-storey building with its homogenous 80m- façade repairs the southern half of Patmos Road and frames the east side of Hammelton Green.
On the ground, first and second floors, it is rectangular in plan. The third floor describes an extended cruciform shape. This same motif is evident in all four elevations. The building is a hybrid, taking its cue from both the plan form and massing of a minster and the homogenous façade of an 18th Century London terrace.
At street level windows are set in a storey-high podium of perforated Corten, a frieze of ‘paintings’ by artist Daniel Sturgis whose perforations provide ventilation to an underground car park. Together the windows and artwork form a cradle for the ivory-coloured brickwork above. Similarly coloured mortar and masonry copings homogenise to create a monolithic form offset by the roughly shaped and heavily textured brickwork.
The main entrance is marked by a residual transept and crossing comprising of a steel and glass port-cochere, a 4th storey of brickwork and a crown of letters A K E R M A N. On either side the Corten screen steps gradually down to the entrance to exaggerate the relative scale of the port cochere and weight of brickwork overhead. Inside, the foyer bisects the plan, extending the trajectory of Tindal Street through to a second entrance that will lead in due course into a new cul-de-sac on the north side of Hammelton Green. The foyer itself is divided into four quadrants, one of which incorporates the main stair. Overhead, four storeys above the foyer, a cruciform skylight illuminates a painted frieze by artist Paul Morrison. The north and south gables repeat the cruciform motif with a third blind storey of brickwork crowned by the letters H E A L T H.
Inside, the building is efficiently organised into three bands of cellular accommodation. The 16m deep floorplate creates naturally lit east and west-facing accommodation between which ancillary spaces such as toilets, stores, stairs and lifts are located. The central position of the foyer, stairs and lift, permits efficient circulation to each clinical cluster.
The ground floor is arranged with a flexible use suite north of the foyer and suite of meeting rooms to the south overlooking Patmos Road. An information reception point within the foyer is linked for ease of management to the flexible use suite reception and waiting area. Two GP practices share the first floor, a third shares the second floor with a multi purpose clinical suite. Each floor shares a linear waiting space adjacent to the central stair and lifts. Both waiting spaces enjoy views over Hammelton Green.
The recessed top floor consists of open plan office accommodation, staff showers and changing rooms, small meeting rooms, a library, staff room and roof terrace. The shallow plan dual aspect daylit offices overlook east and west facing roof gardens.
Akerman has been assessed to have a BREEAM excellent rating.
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