What can hospitals teach us about housing?

For SPPARC, bringing the Grade II* listed Ravenscourt Park Hospital back to life with TT Group means more than repair. Our approach is to let the original design principles lead, and those principles feel remarkably relevant to how we should think about residential design today.

Thomas Tait’s 1933 design won the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Building of the Year, its cross-axial layout, cantilever sun balconies, and generous wall-to-window ratios embodying the era’s belief that sunlight, fresh air, and access to the outdoors were fundamental to good health.

The scheme will deliver 140 new homes, a 65-bed care home, and for the first time genuine public access to the site, with community spaces, new pedestrian routes, and restored landscaping.

In this Architects’ Datafile article, Trevor Morriss explores what architects today can learn from this extraordinary Modernist campus and the possibilities of adaptive reuse. Read it here.