架构师提供的文本描述。循环阅读医院是第二个项目交付的循环健康，一个私人医疗服务提供商。这座10 100平方米的设施通过家庭医生转诊提供选择性手术，这既是私人的，也是扩大国民保健制度内病人选择的一部分。病人体验对于循环来说是非常重要的，建筑、室内设计和病人的整体体验受到了广泛的关注。他们的目标是提供酒店而不是医院的体验。

Text description provided by the architects. Circle Reading hospital is the second project delivered by Circle Health, a private healthcare provider. The 10,100m² facility provides elective surgery through GP referral both on a private basis and as part of the expansion of patient choice within the NHS. Patient experience is very important to Circle and a lot of attention has been paid to the architecture, interior design and the overall patient experience. They aim to provide the experience of a hotel rather than a hospital.

 © Jocelyn Low

(C)洛乔斯林(Jocelyn Low)

该医院位于雷丁，位于该地区四层医院发展规划的指定地点。它位于新住宅区、现有商业区和繁忙的A33转读区之间。医院分为两部分。在东侧，一个两层高的砖块元素包含了服务区和手术室，在大小、材料和规模上都与周围的房屋有关。从遗址的边缘向后，它被一片野花草甸和树木从对面的房屋遮住。

The hospital is located in Reading, on a site that was designated for a four storey hospital development in the area masterplan. It sits on the transition between new residential development blocks, an existing commercial area and the busy A33 into Reading. The hospital is read in two distinct parts. To the east side, a two storey brick element contains the services areas and operating theatres, relating in size, material and scale to the surrounding housing. Set back from the edge of the site, it is screened from the housing opposite by a wild flower meadow and trees.

 © Jocelyn Low

(C)洛乔斯林(Jocelyn Low)

该建筑最引人注目的部分是在工地的西面，在规模上与南部和西部的商业发展有关。大尺度和独特的玻璃包层从A33可见，并标志着医院的存在，从远处。两层玻璃幕墙形成的讲台上，住院的卧室街区浮起。表示为一个简单的盒子，它是包覆在玻璃“篮织”包层。平面玻璃表面创造了一个高水平的动画，一个对比的光和黑暗之间的反作用的天空和直接的环境。

The more striking part of the building is to the west of the site and relates in scale to the commercial development to the south and to the west. The large scale and distinctive glass cladding is visible from the A33 and signals the presence of the hospital from afar. Two storeys of glass curtain walling form the podium above which the inpatient bedroom block floats. Expressed as a simple box, it is clad in a glass “basket-weave” cladding. The faceted glass surface creates a high level of animation, one of contrasts between light and dark with an interplay of reflections of the sky and the immediate environment.

 Ground Floor Plan

所有卧室都向内面对一个内部庭院，其中有一个密集的绿色屋顶，提供了一个和平和绿色的前景，帮助病人康复。内饰是西方的红色雪松瓦，这提供了一个更软，更亲密的鳞片内部的盒子。从这个院子里，光线透过牧师的窗户和屋顶的灯光，涌进了下面明亮的中庭。

All bedrooms face inwards to an internal courtyard which features an intensive green roof, providing a peaceful and green outlook, aiding patient recovery. The interior is clad in western red cedar shingles, which provide a softer, more intimate scale to the interior of the box. From this courtyard, light floods into the top lit atrium below through clerestory windows and rooflights.

 © Jocelyn Low

(C)洛乔斯林(Jocelyn Low)

双高中庭的作用就像医院的主要街道，创造了一个中心，周围有会诊和治疗室、病人康复部、影像部门、行政区域和餐厅。一个巨大的楼梯和电梯从中庭上升，以服务于上层，景观被提供回中庭尽可能帮助定位游客。建筑物的主要入口是通过南立面进入中庭。

The double height atrium acts like the main street of the hospital, creating a hub around which consultation and treatment rooms, patient recovery, imaging department, admin areas and restaurant are located. A grand staircase and lift rises from the atrium to serve the upper levels, views are afforded back into the atrium wherever possible to help orientate the visitor. The main entrance to the building is through the south elevation into the atrium.

 Section AA

AA节

 Section BB

BB节

BWL是一个多学科的实践，并被任命创建一个建筑系统，可以适应不同的地点。圆周阅读将成为这一新方法的示范建筑。通过我们的全面综合服务(包括建筑设计、结构、机械、电气和公共卫生工程)，我们能够以新的方式进行设计。新医院近50%的费用用于服务。我们知道，通过使服务分布尽可能合理，就有可能显着地减少构建量，从而降低构建成本。

BWL are a multi-disciplinary practice and were appointed to create a building system that can be adapted to different sites. Circle Reading was to be the demonstration building for this new approach. Through our fully integrated service (comprising architectural design, structural, mechanical, electrical and public health engineering) we were able to approach the design in a new way. Almost 50% of the cost of a new hospital is spent on services. We knew by making the services distribution as rational as possible it would be possible to dramatically reduce the volume of the building and therefore reduce build costs.

 © Jocelyn Low

(C)洛乔斯林(Jocelyn Low)

建筑系统还广泛应用于制造设计，以降低能耗和成本。在任何可能的情况下，我们都采用了预制部件，如结构系统、淋浴房、门套和安装的家具组件。

The building system also makes extensive use of design for manufacture to reduce embodied energy and cost. Where ever possible we have employed prefabricated elements such as the structural system, shower rooms, doors sets and fitted furniture assemblies.

 © Jocelyn Low

(C)洛乔斯林(Jocelyn Low)

布莱登·伍德利用该项目开发了一套流程、组件和标准的建筑技术，这些技术正在圆环医院的推广中被采用。将不断完善共同要素，以提高设计和施工效率以及最终产品的质量，同时增加成本和方案的确定性。

Bryden Wood used the project to develop a set of processes, components and standard construction techniques that is being adopted across the rollout of Circle’s hospitals. Common elements will be continually refined to improve the efficiency of design and construction and the quality of the end product, while also increasing cost and programme certainty.

Architects Brydenwood

Location Reading, Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

Category Hospital

Area 10100.0 sqm

Photographs Jocelyn Low