DESIGN IN MENTAL HEALTH AWARDS 2019 Art Installation of the Year Award
James Lee, event director, Design in Mental Health 2019 (far left), presented the Art Installation of the Year Award to Tyler Moorehead, Creative director at TYMO London (second from right), and Alana Juman Blincoe, director of Evolve Psychology, for ‘Meet Me at the Upside Down Table’ – an ‘interactive community mental health installation and experience inspired by Japanese tea ceremonies and board game play’.
the building’s advanced IT infrastructure and technology capabilities, will all play an active role in the therapy.
“The bespoke building concept was developed and managed by a strong project team over an intensive four-year period. The architect, M&E consultants, Building Control consultant, and project manager, were vital advisors to the client to ensure that the user-led design met unique and exacting requirements, with a restricted budget and timeframe.”
New levels set
Meeting all Building Regulation requirements, including an EPC ‘A’ rating, the highly energy-efficient project ‘surpassed statutory accessibility requirements’, with ‘new levels set’ for acoustics, lighting, and visual navigation, ‘to meet the sensory needs of visitors with neurodivergent conditions’. With a steel hyperbolic paraboloid roof, the building was constructed with natural stone and ‘maintenance-free’ timber, ‘to complement its rural surroundings, and avoid any institutional style’. Caudwell Children said: “The CICC’s word-class building design will actively revolutionise the diagnosis,
DiMH Recognition Award
therapy, and research, of autism in the UK, and worldwide, positively impacting the health and wellbeing of its users, and positioning the immediate community as a centre for industry excellence and attracting further talent. The unique project demonstrates proficient co-design to create a people-led concept and a new national and international standard of ‘inclusive’ buildings.”
Falklands’ first vulnerable persons’ extra care facility
Highly Commended was One Creative Environments, for the Vulnerable Person’s Extra Care Facility in the Falkland Islands. The Islands’ first such facility, Tussac House in Port Stanley will ‘provide excellent independent living facilities’ for the frail and elderly, those living with a disability, a learning difficulty, or dementia, ‘in an intuitive, safe, and non-institutionalised environment’. The complex’s layout ‘mimics a village’, with areas for socialising, such as the internal ‘high street’ – boasting a café, beauty salon, restaurant, and activity areas. In addition, quieter relaxation spaces are incorporated for instances when the residents may desire ‘me’ time.
Project of the Year Refurbishment This year’s Project of the Year Refurbishment Award, also sponsored by P+HS Architects, and again presented by Cath Lake, went to the Interior Architectural Design Company (IAD), for the Ty Carreg Residential Home – ‘a flagship residential care facility for adults with autism’ based on the South Wales coastline. ‘Transforming a collection of semi-demolished, Grade II, structurally unstable barns, sheds, and a chapel’, architect and interior designer, IAD, was tasked with creating ‘a beautiful yet practical home’ for 12 residents with additional needs. The entry noted that Ty Carreg ‘is unique in many ways’. It added: “Marrying the traditional elements of ancient architecture with the specialist requirements of the residents was paramount. The project came under intense scrutiny from local planners, due to the site’s historical significance. IAD turned this to its advantage, forging close relationships with all to create a completely custom-built development incorporating key features including CCTV, electronic entry systems, staff attack systems, wipeable finishes over existing stone walls, lowered ceilings to reduce ligature risks from existing beams, and more.” Ty Carreg was, the entry said, ‘a genuinely unique development respectfully transformed from an 800-year-old site into a state-of- the-art, functional forever home for 12 adults with autism’. Residents and those supporting them up to 24 hours daily, all- year round, are benefitting from ‘an environment of serenity and peace, where once were ruins’. Cath Lake presented the award to IAD director, Rebecca Lewis- Chapman.
£15 million mental health unit remodelling in Harlow
The DiMHN’s President, Joe Forster (far left), presented the 2019 Design in Mental Health Recognition Award to Rob MacDonald (centre) – ‘not only a distinguished architect and academic, but also an expert-by-experience’.
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Frederick Gibberd Partnership was Highly Commended for the £15 m remodelling, extension, and refurbishment, of a 1960s mental health unit, the Derwent Centre, within the grounds of Harlow’s Princess Alexandra Hospital. Although purpose- built, the Centre had changed little in its
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