O HT I NT IG ER NAL S P TL TIO NA park place Alder Hey Children's Hospital in England integrates its buildings into a scenic setting to maximize clinic space and bring patients and staff as close to nature as possible DAVID BARBOUR By Anne DiNardo IN 2010, ALDER Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, England, was feeling some growing pains. Over the years, several additions had been made to the 100-year-old campus's two- and three-story buildings, creating inefficient and labyrinth-like circulation routes. This development was largely fueled by an evolution in demand for specialty services in the pediatric market, with Alder Hey seeing the most activity in the areas of cardiac and neuroscience care. "Alder Hey grows roughly 5 percent a year and has for the last 10 years," says David Powell, development director at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust. "As you grow, you start randomly bolting things on and [the hospital] starts to lose its coherence." HCDmagazine.com 03.16 31http://www.HCDmagazine.com