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CENTRAL FACILITIES
New central University facilities are proposed in locations
that are well connected to the Heart of the Campus.
Improving connectivity has been an important part of the
design development, particularly considering links to the
new Development Zone. Development Zone
Central facilities are:
1. Music facility

MUSIC FACILITY

MEDICAL CENTRE

The existing music facility, currently located at Lindsay
Hall, will be demolished as part of the redevelopment of
Lindsay Hall. A new music facility is required as part of the
first phase.

The existing medical centre will be replaced with a new
medical centre. This will be slightly larger than the existing
GP facilities. The single story building will be located at the
ground level of the buildings proposed on the E1 car park,
fronting on to a new shared surface space and forming a
parking courtyard to the flank facing the new Music Facility.

Located close to the heart of the campus and near to
other performance spaces such as the Student Union
and Chapel, the music facility marks the start of the new
buildings on this key pedestrian link.

2. Medical centre
3. Keele Postgraduate Association social building
The music facility and the medical centre, located on the
current E1 car park, face onto a new pedestrian-priority
link, which in turn leads through the woodland to the future
Development Zone

The proposed new standalone music facility has been
designed from the inside out as series of acoustic “black
boxes” laid out all at one level;
4. large lecture theatre

The KPA social building is repositioned further to the west,
providing a destination on the existing pedestrian route.

Current proposals include:
8. GP rooms,
9. nurses’ rooms
10. treatment room
11. reception and office space

(double height performance space),
5. small lecture theatre (music practice & green room),
6. recording studio suite

There will be a requirement for a number of dedicated
parking spaces, ambulance drop off and bin areas which
have been carefully accommodated around the new
medical centre.

7. band practice and drum practice
Other spaces (reception break-out/circulation, instrument
stores) have been positioned to minimise the risk of
transfer of sound and better enable the spaces to be used
simultaneously, something which will prove to be a big
advantage over the current existing building at Lindsay
Hall.

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Car parking
for medical
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Music

Location Plan

main entrance to
music facility

main entrance to
medical centre

Existing student
union building

View looking North East across Keele Hall Road towards the proposed music and medical facilities

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Medical

MAIN performance
space

car parking for
medical centre

screen for privacy
to medical centre

View looking North West (existing commemorative trees not shown for illustration purposes)

Project Update – August 2016