羅伯特·帕菲特大樓麥琪中心

建設單位：麥琪

項目地點：英國曼徹斯特

設計單位：福斯特建筑事務所

景觀設計：丹皮爾森工作室

照明設計：Cundall

場地面積：1 922 平方米

建筑面積：500 平方米

設計/建造：2012 / 2016 年

攝影：Nigel Young / 福斯特建筑事務所

Client: Maggie’s

Location: Manchester, UK

Architect: Foster + Partners

Landscape Consultant: Dan Pearson Studio

Lighting Consultant: Cundall

Site Area: 1 922 m2

Building Area: 500 m2

Design / Completion: 2012 / 2016

Photography: Nigel Young / Foster + Partners

麥琪中心遍布英國及海外各地，是一個為癌癥患者提供情感支持和藥物治療庇護所，被人們親切的稱作“第二家園”。受到Maggie Keswick Jencks 新型醫療建筑設計的啟發，他們不惜余力地想通過建筑元素為治療過程中的患者鼓舞精神，帶來正能量。曼徹斯特中心坐落在花園景觀中，旨在營造一種具有在地性強的親切感，你會不經意間在一條綠樹成蔭的街道盡頭見到它，距離克里斯蒂醫院及它頂尖的腦瘤科僅幾步之遙。

該建筑身處一個充滿陽光的基地，共一層樓，保持較低的建筑高度，與周邊居住尺度相宜。屋頂在中部升起形成一個夾層，三角形屋頂自然采光，由輕質的木格梁作為支撐結構。木梁作為內部不同區域的自然隔斷，讓整體建筑不知不覺地融入周邊的花園景觀中。該中心復合了各種功能，從私密空間到公共圖書館、健身房，以及共同飲茶的集聚空間。建筑的核心空間是間廚房，廚房的正中心被一張巨大的公用餐桌所占據。與傳統醫療機構相關的，如走廊、醫院標識等元素在設計中被盡可能避免，力圖為患者打造一個家園般的居所。此外，精心選用暖色調、自然木材和觸感舒適的材料。管理辦公室位于夾層的中脊結構之上，下方是廁所及儲藏空間，保持建筑的自然視覺連通性。

自然采光、綠植和花園景觀遍及中心的各個角落。線性的空間方案中穿插著景觀內院，建筑的西翼延伸至一個寬敞的陽臺，由深挑的頂棚覆蓋，免受雨水的侵擾。滑動的玻璃門使建筑通往Dan Pearson Studio 設計的花園景觀。建筑的東翼中每個治療室和咨詢室都面對著自己的私人花園。建筑的南端布置有一個花房，充分沐浴在陽光和自然之中，為人們創造一個樂園，在這里集聚、辛勤揮灑汗水，并共享自然和戶外療養帶來的愉悅感。花房也將成為患者們種植花草以及其它作物的勞動場所，在他們最脆弱的時候可以不斷找尋到生命的價值和意義。

該中心由福克斯建筑事務所完成整體設計和施工任務，同時，所有的定制家具由諾曼·福斯特和邁克·霍蘭德共同設計而成，并由霍蘭德帶領工業設計團隊將方案付諸實際。這些家居設計包括了廚房設備、餐桌、餐具以及其它擱架物件等。

Located across Britain and abroad, Maggie’s Centres are conceived to provide a welcoming‘home away from home’- a place of refuge where people affected by cancer can find emotional and practical support. Inspired by the blueprint for a new type of care set out by Maggie Keswick Jencks, they place great value upon the power of architecture to lift the spirits and help in the process of therapy. The design of the Manchester centre aims to establish a domestic atmosphere in a garden setting and, appropriately, is first glimpsed at the end of a tree-lined street, a short walk from The Christie Hospital and its leading oncology unit.

The building occupies a sunny site and is arranged over a single storey, keeping its profile low and reflecting the residential scale of the surrounding streets. The roof rises in the centre to create a mezzanine level, naturally illuminated by triangular roof lights and it is supported by lightweight timber lattice beams. The beams act as natural partitions between different internal areas, visually dissolving the architecture into the surrounding gardens. The centre combines a variety of spaces,from intimate private niches to a library, exercise rooms and places to gather and share a cup of tea. The heart of the building is the kitchen, which is centred on a large, communal table.Institutional references, such as corridors and hospital signs have been banished in favour of homelike spaces. To that end the materials palette combines warm, natural wood and tactile fabrics.Staff is unobtrusive, yet close and accessible. Support offices are placed on a mezzanine level positioned on top of a wide central spine, with toilets and storage spaces below, maintaining natural visual connections across the building.

Throughout the centre, there is a focus on natural light, greenery and garden views. The rectilinear plan is punctuated by landscaped courtyards and the entire western elevation extends intoa wide veranda, which is sheltered from the rain by the deep overhang of the roof. Sliding glass doors open the building up to a garden setting created by Dan Pearson Studio. Each treatment and counselling room on the eastern fa?ade faces its own private garden. The south end of the building, extends to embrace a greenhouse - a celebration of light and nature - The greenhouse provides a garden retreat, a space for people to gather, to work with their hands and enjoy the therapeutic qualities of nature and the outdoors. It is a space to grow flowers and other produce that can be used at the centre giving the patients a sense of purpose at a time when they may feel at their most vulnerable.The centre, designed and engineered by Foster + Partners, also features bespoke furniture designed by Norman Foster with Mike Holland who heads out the industrial design team in the practice. These include kitchen units and table, sideboards and other shelving units.