Eastwood Health & Care Centre, East Renfrewshire

The Centre is designed to provide clear orientation, wayfinding and ease of movement throughout for both members of the public and staff. The building is 6,015sqm in size and is organised over 3 floors arranged around 2 external courtyards. These 2 courtyards allow a high level of natural daylight and ventilation through the entire building.

The ground floor accommodates a variety of clinical and support spaces of differing sizes for services ranging from physiotherapy and podiatry through to mental health and children and families sessions. These clinics are organised around a central arrival space looking out onto both courtyards. This central space also contains the main building reception, cafe, information and group areas supporting a range of third sector services and creating a controlled area and variety of facilities to encourage various out of hours community use. The first floor groups together the GP practices within the Centre together with a suite of shared consulting and meeting spaces. These are again organised around a central arrival space with views out to the 2 courtyards that allows patients to orientate themselves and clearly see the reception points for each of the GP practices. Discrete waiting areas are arranged adjacent to each of these receptions with further shared waiting for busy periods located in the central space.

The second floor accommodates the main staff workspaces and shared accommodation. The office areas provide a combination of different types of workspace ranging from open plan groupings of desks to more informal counter style hot desk and group areas linked to tea points. These groupings of workspaces cater for both permanently based office staff and the agile working patterns of the peripatetic staff.