Project Team
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Forbo, Interface, Shaw Contract, Domus, Autex, Altro, Buzzispace, XAL, Soltech, Gradus, London Metropolitan University, Overbury , London Metropolitan University , EFG, AECOM
Text provided by Stride Treglown
The new Skills and Simulation Centre transforms an underutilised library space within the London Met’s Learning and Science Centre into a specialist space for nurse education and health sciences. The project is a response to transformative changes in healthcare delivery, which is moving from profession-specific acute intervention to multidisciplinary, community-based care and support. The London Met has located the project at Holloway Road Campus. It is the first project delivered as part of the University’s 10-year Estates Strategy, alongside other healthcare and science education resources to encourage greater collaboration and spontaneous connection between disciplines. It forms a component of the new School Centre with its own identity and gives students a home-base.
Stride Treglown’s refurbishment includes a variety of real-world simulation environments and tech prep facilities, as well as work, breakout and social areas for students and staff. The studio further future-proofed the building by incorporating the most cutting-edge, innovative teaching technology, including a 360-degree ‘Igloo’ virtual reality cylinder. The intervention also transformed one floor of a 1960s glass factory, previously repurposed by the university as a library, into a series of specialist spaces that simulate real medical environments, supported by flexible multi-use spaces to host different healthcare and human sciences subjects.
