b'The Christie Proton Beam Therapy CentreManchester, United KingdomSize Project Description positioned on external walls and 15,575 sqm The Christie Proton Beam Therapycourtyards offer natural daylighting Services Centre is a pioneering facilityand landscaping. There are three Architecture providing advanced cancer treatmentdistinct waiting and clinical zones for to 650 patients annually.adults, teenagers and young children. Interior Design The Christie NHS FoundationThe adult zone is designed as a social Programming Trust joined teamed with Centralhub, with a glazed waiting area that Manchester University Hospitals NHSintegrates light, vegetation and a Foundation Trust and Salford Royalcaf/kitchen space. The teenage NHS Foundation Trust to bring onearea is a separate lounge space of two national, high energy protonspecifically designed to cater to that beam therapy centres to Manchester.age group. The childrens waiting and The 12,300 square metre centreclinical areas are separated from contains proton beam treatment,adults and are designed to safeguard clinical support spaces, andchildren and reduce the anxiety of cancer outpatient and inpatientpediatric patients and their families. departments. The facility housesThe five-story building is situated Equipped with threethree fully rotational gantries and aprominently near the hospitals main rotational gantries,research room can be refit as a futureentrance, providing an opportunity to the Christie Protonrotational gantry treatment room.feature signage, lighting and cladding Beam Therapy CentreThe design approach focused on amaterials that showcase the building.delivers precise protonpatient experience that creates a therapy.warm and inviting space that reduces fear and anxiety. Waiting spaces Buchan+HKS 36'