Total Building Performance mandate
Does the plan work for staff, patients and the community at once?
Strong, with an honest and deliberate trade-off between campus generosity and staff walking distance.
Integrated campus removes transfers between separate institutions; standardised ward modules make staff movement predictable and allow re-purposing.
The parkland doubles as public realm, so the hospital reads as community infrastructure rather than an institution.
Trade-off: a spread-out, low-rise campus buys daylight and landscape at the cost of longer horizontal travel for staff and logistics.
Computational design support used for this mandate
Design → construction → handover
Single coordination model across architecture, structure and dense healthcare MEP; clash detection and RFI resolution before site.
Fewer on-site clashes in service-heavy ceiling voids; enabled prefabricated MEP to be cut to real dimensions.
Design → pre-construction
Full-size ward and consult-room prototypes tested by clinical users before the module was repeated.
Errors were corrected once, then multiplied out as a benefit across hundreds of rooms.
A low-rise campus around a park buys daylight, view and public realm, and pays for it in horizontal travel for staff and logistics. Automated material transport and standardised, predictable ward layouts reduce the penalty but do not remove it — this is a deliberate, defensible choice rather than an oversight.