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Benenden Hospital
HEALING DAYLIGHT
When building for people, especially in healthcare, architects continually explore ways to introduce as much natural daylight as possible. The benefit of natural daylight for patients and staff is well documented.
That’s what makes the recent renovation of Benenden Hospi… Read More
A series of breathtaking skylights featuring Kalwall® translucent sandwich panels are the architectural focus of a $76 million (£55 million) renovation project. Designed by architects CA Vaughan Blundell with assistance from SR Architects Ltd, the new and renovated spaces create an enhanced patient … Read More
The atrium and lounge areas bring in natural daylight through the use of skylights, helping the architects achieve the clean, modern and caring feeling Benenden sought. The design allows for the Kalwall skylights to not only provide natural, glare-free daylight to the areas they are directly over, b… Read More
Kalwall was specified in order to help the project attain a BREEAM status of ‘Good’. The heavily insulated composition of the panels eliminates glare and hotspots to reduce the load on temperature control systems and the need for artificial lighting.
Benenden, an independent hospital located in southeast England, considers itself a special place and “precisely what a hospital should be: progressively modern, unquestionably clean and genuinely caring.” That message is delivered the moment a patient walks into the main entrance through the wonderf… Read More
