Stobhill Hospital Unit Glasgow : Information + Images

STOBHILL PSYCHIATRIC CARE UNIT 20 Apr 2009 A new Psychiatric Care Unit for adolescents located at Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow is in the form of a community setting comprising several separate buildings each with a set function. The residential element consists of three 8-person "houses" each providing bedrooms with en-suite shower rooms, lounge, pantry and nursing staff facilities. These are linked with visitor and communal nursing/medical facilities. A second building provides education facilities such as classrooms and workshops together with a gym. The third building accommodates therapies facilities such as a therapies kitchen or interview rooms on the ground floor and "staff only" administration facilities on the upper floor. The buildings are separate in order to provide "a journey" between living or home spaces and work or therapies spaces. The project is set in a mature garden area and is enhanced by the external provisions of external space including private external space. Stobhill Hospital information from Campbell & Arnott 200409 CAMPBELL AND ARNOTT is an established and award winning practice with an extensive portfolio of work. Recent projects include an award winning £12m teaching block for the University of Dundee, a nursing home and a day hospital at Pitlochry, Stobhill Residential Unit at Stobhill Glasgow an Armistead Child Development Centre, Dundee. Current projects the practice is currently working on include several residential projects and medical centres and a new £7m Genito Urinary Medicine and Family Planning Clinic at Chalmers Hospital, Edinburgh. The practice undertakes a broad range of work, varied in scope and scale and it has won numerous awards, including Civic Trust, RIBA, Saltire Society Housing, Edinburgh Architectural Association, British Council For Offices, Royal Academy Gold Medal For Architecture, Chartered Institute Of Building Award, Dundee Institute Of Architects. Competition winning projects including a mixed use building at Castle Terrace Edinburgh which included the world famous Traverse Theatre and a national design competition for an commercial building at Edinburgh Park business park. The practice has collaborated with other practices including Richard Meier Architects of New York. The practice is 20 strong and based in Edinburgh and has worked across Scotland, the UK and further afield including mainland Europe, Scandinavia, USA and the Far East.