The Hub aims to overcome the industry’s current fragmentation and adopt a new, data-driven, industrialised construction approach.
A Platforms approach places no constraint on the architect’s freedom to create a uniquely beautiful building that responds to its environment..Resilience, future-proofing and sustainability.
It is not enough for a hospital to be excellent when it first opens its doors..It must also be excellent next year, in 10 years’ time and 10 years after that.It must be able to respond not only to its own changing requirements, but those of local and neighbouring environments, populations and infrastructure.
As we have seen over 2020, those changes can be radical and terrifyingly fast.But as we have also seen over the last 20 years, healthcare priorities can be affected by political and social as much as natural changes.. We are also faced with a climate crisis that requires every building to be designed and built for reduction in both embodied and operational carbon..
The best response is to create the most efficient, flexible and adaptable design.
The efficient use of materials is core to the Platforms approach, which naturally tends to the leanest and most compact design by optimising every element, eliminating approximation and allowances, and taking every opportunity to reduce inefficiency and waste.. Technology in all areas.They are the embodiment of a system.
The core purpose of the project drives the analysis that informs the selection of Chips..Defining Chips for the project.
At a point in each project, we go through the process of defining Chips for that project, in order to develop a Chip library.This can start with a reference design, or a blank piece of paper.