Studio Weave has transformed an awkward exterior space landlocked by buildings into the Lullaby Factory – a secret world that cannot be seen except from inside the hospital and cannot be heard by the naked ear, only by tuning in to its radio frequency or from a few special listening pipes. Due to the phasing of the Great Ormond Street Hospital redevelopment, the recently completed Morgan Stanley Clinical Building has been designed to overlook a landscape that will not be in place for 15 years. In the intervening period, large windows in the west elevation look directly on to the 'back' of the 1930s Southwood Building, with the gap between the two less than one metre in places. In our competition entry we proposed that the Southwood Building, with its oodles of mysterious pipes and plant, is not really the Southwood Building, but the Lullaby Factory: manufacturing and releasing gentle, beautiful lullabies to create a calming and uplifting environment the young patients to recover in. Our aim for this project was to re-imagine the Southwood façade as the best version of itself, accepting and celebrating its qualities and oddities; and rather than hiding what is difficult, creating something unique and ...
Studio Weave has transformed an awkward exterior space landlocked by buildings into the Lullaby Factory – a secret world that cannot be seen except from inside the hospital and cannot be heard by the naked ear, only by tuning in to its radio frequency or from a few special listening pipes. Due to the phasing of the Great Ormond Street Hospital redevelopment, the recently completed Morgan Stanley Clinical Building has been designed to overlook a landscape that will not be in place for 15 years. In the intervening period, large windows in the west elevation look directly on to the 'back' of the 1930s Southwood Building, with the gap between the two less than one metre in places. In our competition entry we proposed that the Southwood Building, with its oodles of mysterious pipes and plant, is not really the Southwood Building, but the Lullaby Factory: manufacturing and releasing gentle, beautiful lullabies to create a calming and uplifting environment the young patients to recover in. Our aim for this project was to re-imagine the Southwood façade as the best version of itself, accepting and celebrating its qualities and oddities; and rather than hiding what is difficult, creating something unique and ...