Royal visit to the Maggie's Centre in London

Big day at the newest Maggie's Centre at the Royal Free Hospital. A royal visit was made on 31 January 2024 to mark the grand opening of the new cancer support centre in London.

As patron of the charity, Queen Camilla attended as guest of honour to meet with patients, staff and supporters of the charity on the day. The Maggie's Centres as a place of wellbeing and recovery is the charity's stated philosophy and the latest project demonstrates the importance and relevance of this issue. The centre offers free support to all people living with cancer, as well as their relatives and friends. As with all Maggie's Foundation therapy centres, patients with cancer not only find medical support here, but also advice on social benefits, various forms of therapy, sports facilities and psychological support.

ZÜBLIN Timber is proud and honoured to have suceesfully delivered the free-form building envelope and façade construction for the new Maggie's Centre at the Royal Free Hospital in London in 2023.

Following the centres in Oxford (designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects and completed in 2014) and Oldham (designed by dRMM architects and completed in 2016), ZÜBLIN Timber completed now the third project for our client the Maggie’s Trust on the grounds of the Royal Free Hospital. This time, the centre was designed by New York based architect Studio Daniel Libeskind.

The biggest challenges included the implementation of the free-form architectural design of the building envelope in engineered timber and the fulfilment of all building physics requirements, including fire protection. The use of a parametric model in the planning, the optimisation of the wall build up and connection design, as well as the high degree of prefabrication of the engineered timber components contributed to achieving an economical solution for the geometrically and physically demanding building envelope and facade.

Project participants:
Client: Maggies Trust (Maggie`s Centres)
Architectur: Studio Daniel Libeskind; magma architecture
Static: Expedition Engineering Ltd
Project manager: Sir Robert McAlpine (srm.com)
Cost manager: Gardiner & Theobald LLP

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