罗伯特·帕菲特大楼麦琪中心

建设单位：麦琪

项目地点：英国曼彻斯特

设计单位：福斯特建筑事务所

景观设计：丹皮尔森工作室

照明设计：Cundall

场地面积：1 922 平方米

建筑面积：500 平方米

设计/建造：2012 / 2016 年

摄影：Nigel Young / 福斯特建筑事务所

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

麦琪中心遍布英国及海外各地，是一个为癌症患者提供情感支持和药物治疗庇护所，被人们亲切的称作“第二家园”。受到Maggie Keswick Jencks 新型医疗建筑设计的启发，他们不惜余力地想通过建筑元素为治疗过程中的患者鼓舞精神，带来正能量。曼彻斯特中心坐落在花园景观中，旨在营造一种具有在地性强的亲切感，你会不经意间在一条绿树成荫的街道尽头见到它，距离克里斯蒂医院及它顶尖的脑瘤科仅几步之遥。

该建筑身处一个充满阳光的基地，共一层楼，保持较低的建筑高度，与周边居住尺度相宜。屋顶在中部升起形成一个夹层，三角形屋顶自然采光，由轻质的木格梁作为支撑结构。木梁作为内部不同区域的自然隔断，让整体建筑不知不觉地融入周边的花园景观中。该中心复合了各种功能，从私密空间到公共图书馆、健身房，以及共同饮茶的集聚空间。建筑的核心空间是间厨房，厨房的正中心被一张巨大的公用餐桌所占据。与传统医疗机构相关的，如走廊、医院标识等元素在设计中被尽可能避免，力图为患者打造一个家园般的居所。此外，精心选用暖色调、自然木材和触感舒适的材料。管理办公室位于夹层的中脊结构之上，下方是厕所及储藏空间，保持建筑的自然视觉连通性。

自然采光、绿植和花园景观遍及中心的各个角落。线性的空间方案中穿插着景观内院，建筑的西翼延伸至一个宽敞的阳台，由深挑的顶棚覆盖，免受雨水的侵扰。滑动的玻璃门使建筑通往Dan Pearson Studio 设计的花园景观。建筑的东翼中每个治疗室和咨询室都面对着自己的私人花园。建筑的南端布置有一个花房，充分沐浴在阳光和自然之中，为人们创造一个乐园，在这里集聚、辛勤挥洒汗水，并共享自然和户外疗养带来的愉悦感。花房也将成为患者们种植花草以及其它作物的劳动场所，在他们最脆弱的时候可以不断找寻到生命的价值和意义。

该中心由福克斯建筑事务所完成整体设计和施工任务，同时，所有的定制家具由诺曼·福斯特和迈克·霍兰德共同设计而成，并由霍兰德带领工业设计团队将方案付诸实际。这些家居设计包括了厨房设备、餐桌、餐具以及其它搁架物件等。

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 façade 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.