Hope Hospital  (M.S.C.P.)

Built for Salford Hospital Trust, this design build project provides parking for 1136 employees on its Hope site. The car-park is just part of a massive redevelopment plan currently underway, and the car-park will provide the much needed space to progress with its expansion plan.

Built on part of an old ground surface park the car-park provides parking on six levels and uses a sloping deck arrangement to maximize on the spaces available, this being achieved with the use of only one cross-over ramp, situated in the middle of the car-park.

Although the car-park could be considered as one of basic design, the Client was keen to produce a gateway building, it being close to the M602 one of the main arterial routes into Manchester city centre.

This has been achieved by the development of an original concept design, provided by H. K. Ryder Architects, and uses certain materials that have been used throughout the development. One in particular is the grey ship lapped cladding, and this has been used to good effect on the car-park’s service cores.

In addition to this galvanised steel edge on edge mesh, in a random pattern forms the floor to floor screening, this is broken at floor level by a prominent white concrete aerofoil, giving the building a strong horizontal emphasis.

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