Empathise and engage

If there’s one thing we’ve learned makes better buildings, it’s empathy. Architecture never happens in isolation—and simply by being interested and engaged, we’ve found it’s possible to open up the conversations that connect a scheme to its clients and community.

Weconstraints

We believe that the more constraints there are, the better the architecture. If there aren’t any constraints, we create them. Challenging sites, existing buildings and complex briefs almost always present incredible opportunities for great design.

Passive future

To limit our environmental impact, we start with what is already there. By manipulating the form and fabric of a building—whether new or existing—we can work with the existing conditions of topography, light and orientation, and harness the natural energy sources offered by air, ground and water.

Social detail

If a site’s constraints guide the bigger design decisions, then it’s empathy that informs the smaller, social details. These details frame the human narratives that aren’t included in the brief, anticipating specific moments in the users’ lives.

Mud on our boots

Good architecture is as much about what happens on the building site as it is about what’s on the drawing board. By working alongside contractors as well as clients we can ring-fence the ideas and details that matter, championing quality and sustainability throughout construction.

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Our new pop-up triage proposal gates the public through to health centres, prior to consultation with a GP/clinician, much like an airport security process prior to taking a flight. For the protection of healthcare professionals and the public from COVID-19 infection, a separated triage process including some basic virus symptom testing may become the ‘new normal’ for patients to access healthcare facilities. Our proposal utilises outdoor space, such as car parks to add a ‘gateway’ separated triage/testing facility to existing health centres

Together with BOB Design, we have produced a mailer on Pop-up Triage for leaders in healthcare trusts and organisations across the country, explaining our concept. Curl la Tourelle Head Architecture are able to offer services that can fulfil each health centre’s needs through masterplanning, layout of spaces and service co-ordination.

See our Pop-up Healthcare initiative here

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