Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service

This project was won in 2013 through the competitive dialogue process with rankinfraser part of a team led by Kajima UK and Interserve and including Reiach and Hall Architects and Buro Happold. The landscape design reflects the importance of this significant national headquarters and centre of excellence and seeks to form a link between the building, the site and the wider research park. Providing suitable amenity space for staff, some of whom work long hours in intense laboratory conditions was an important aspect of the brief. 

The landscape design comprises an extensive parkland area, with walks through new woodland and links to the wider campus path network, a staff garden, an generous entrance space signified by two avenues of Pin Oak, Quercus palustris and a single Scot’s Pine, Pinus Sylvestris. An enclosed courtyard containing three Paper bark Maples Acer Griseum allows daylight into the heart of the building. A simple palette of beech and hornbeam hedging was used to structure the car park and define the perimeter of the site.

Client: Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service

Architect: Reiach and Hall

Status: On-site