The project is designed in partnership with Murray O’Laoire Architects to achieve clear efficient patient and visitor circulation throughout the entirety of their healthcare journey from arrival to admission, through their procedure to discharge. The significant hospital building includes a Day Procedures Ward, Operating Theatres, Endoscopy, Central Sterile Supplies and Radiology Departments as well as a new main entrance, car-parking and landscape design.
The clinical areas and the linking circulation and waiting spaces are designed to provide a stimulating and varied experience for visitor and patient. The privacy of this journey and a dynamic relationship with the landscape design are accorded high priority. The project also takes particular care to ensure the exploitation of natural lighting, as well as with the careful use of colour and materials.
A unique feature of the scheme is the Chapel which is accessed off the main circulation route but given its own identity as an architectural element both internally and externally. The curved glazing was commissioned from the artist Hughie O’Donoghue and the room is spacious and calm giving the hospital community a spiritual oasis for reflection.
LocationGalway
ClientBon Secours Health System
ServiceArchitectural
Value€16m
StatusCompleted
