1. A Tower for Health
Can Architecture help balance
The Science of Treatment with The Art of Care?
Ivan Harbour

2. Caring environments

3. King’s Health Partners Cancer
Centre at Guy’s

4. A plan for the future

5. Guy’s Tower

6. Stacked care ‘Villages’

7. Human scale
A
important threshold
3 Storeys
from D
12
3
3
10
C
B
C
10
A
important threshold
3 Storeys
D
B
our sense of sight
50-55
10
A
important threshold
3 Storeys
o
o
from B
3
B
70-80
5
5
A
important threshold
3 Storeys
B
4
important threshold
B
B
3
B
3 Storeys
3
B
A
3 Storeys
threshold
2
A
o
threshold
important threshold
3
3 storey villages
from C
40metres
A
14 storey atrium
A
1
12 storey building
maximum site coverage
A
A to A

8. A four storey tower

9. The Art of Care,
The Science of Treatment

10. 51
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11. A plan with many site constraints

12. Welcome Village,
Ground Level

13. Radiotherapy Village
Level 2

14. One-Stop Village
Level 5

15. Chemotherapy & King’s
Research Village
Level 7

16. Clearly arranged ‘Village’ volumes

17. Two years of Design Development,
The Art of Care

18. The Science of Treatment

19. King’s Health Partners Cancer
Centre at Guy’s