Our practice has worked with Bidwill Hospital in Timaru for many years including the 2009 provision of day surgery facilities. So we were very pleased to be engaged again in 2020 to provide full architectural services for their proposed radiology extension. Initially the brief was to provide a 2 stage, design that allowed for a future second stage expansion to accommodate an MRI suite.

At about the time the project was tendered it was decided that the MRI suite would be best integrated into the current works as a single build. This required a 160m2 addition to the brief. Which was designed and priced whilst the contractor got underway on site with unaffected aspects of the original design.

Serving two client our brief included an interior radiology fit out commissioned by PRG along with an extension & internal renovation for Bidwill Hospital. Along with the envelop of the new extension we provided siteworks and a 2.5m expansion of their main building to improve their TSU facilities, loading & storage and a reworking of internal office and support spaces.

The design for the extension was a same “but different” approach that linked into the forms and rhythm of the original building alongside, without pretending to be a duplication.

To provide a healthy and calming internal environment for the radiology patients a series of skylights were installed along the main spine of the addition bringing natural light deep in the building. The use of natural wood and natural light provides an intuitively calming and reassuring environment and presents a degree of spatial and performance quality that is representative of the PRG brand

Further sky lighting was installed over the expanded TSU space maintaining clear visibility and natural light, having now been enclosed by the new radiology addition