Zaha Hadid Architects Maggie’s Centre , Victoria 04 03 02 01 Date Location Project Client Size Status Built , Kirkcaldy, Maggie’s Centre Maggie’s Maggie’s Centre Fife, Centre Maggie’s Victoria Hospital Victoria 250m² 2001 / 2006 2001 landscape on both sides. These overhangs overhangs These landscape on both sides. on the north side the entrance doors protect solar provide they side south the whilst on and partially shading to the glass elevation the terrace. cover glass, the directional nature of this form form this directionalof glass, the nature of the roof Large overhangs is reinforced. the building into the are used to extend hospital grounds. By cladding the visible hospital grounds. the with opposing walls and two roof same material and making the remaining a mix of translucent and clear elevations ground slab. The folding surface articulates surface folding slab. The ground the visitor a directional emphasis of moving the rest of the space from into a different Externally the form of the Centre derives of the Centre derives Externally the form connecting a and surface folding a from Volume & Landscape Volume natural landscape and the hospital. By using study models, Zaha Hadid Architects various could an edge to the hollow how explored itself into which transforms be developed gateway a becoming - buildingenvelope a to the natural landscape. continuation of the existing tree-line that continuation of the existing centre The this natural hollow. surrounds has been designed as a transition between types of spaces - the different the two environment in stark contrast to the other in stark contrast to the other environment a single Hospital. As Victoria of facilities is a Fife construction, Maggie’s storey hollow has a dramatic topography, which has a dramatic topography, hollow and in combination with the natural foliage protected distinctive trees creates a very Context Context edge the on located is Fife Centre Maggie’s adjacent to the hospital. The of a hollow Providing a resource and counsellingcentre and resource a Providing is Fife Maggie’s people with cancer, for domestic in scale but unique in execution. Introduction Introduction is within the Centre Fife Maggie’s The Hospital in Kirkcaldy. of Victoria grounds 05 06

Gross Max Gross Building Surveyors GLM Ltd Structural Engineers Associates Wernick Jane Services Engineers Hunts SKM Anthony Quantity Surveyors Surveyors CBA SupervisorsPlanning Reiach & Hall Landscape Architect K J Tait Engineers K J Tait Drainage Underground

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Zaha Hadid Architects Maggie’s Centre Fife, Victoria Hospital