Architecture
were developed for the comfort and care of the residents, and the home was designed to enable people to live as independently as possible with support where needed.
Architectural design The care home architecture was heavily influenced by a desire to achieve a modern, innovative design, while assisting residents to navigate around the external environment. The home is delivered over two floors with clustered household living groups surrounding a central courtyard garden, with further communal facilities including a cafe, lounges, activity room, cinema, and hair salon opening out over a number of amenity gardens, terraces, and balconies. The subdivision of the building enables identifiable uses through the use of materials. Details include a zinc-clad entrance form with glazed active curve accommodation and public areas which are visually stimulating and encourage views from internal spaces to the public courtyard gardens. The household private living pavilions are brick-finished for a more domestic feel. The households model allows the care staff to deliver day-to-day care for residents with greater needs and flexibility for those who may wish to be more independent. One key user profile included those suffering with cognitive conditions such as dementia, which was a key consideration in the layout of the building. The subdivision of the building creates identifiable wayfinding to guide users around the environment, while moving away from an institutional feel and enabling identifiable uses within.
The building is located to maximise its relationship with the New River, without overly dominating the site.
Adequate separation from the river creates open space This layout works within the immediate land parcel and compliments the site context. The flexibility of the building plan form provides change in scale and shape of the built form with both functional internal and external areas. Provision of open spaces and boundaries
allow views into the site. The external areas work with the internal accommodation, and the form of the building creates a variety of open amenity spaces and courtyards. The client required strong links between inside and outside spaces and not only at ground floor level. Architectural details and features such as balconies and terrace enclosures were designed over key areas of the built form. The site, building, and interior design
have been developed together with the comfort and care of the residents at the forefront, and the home is designed to enable people to live as independently as possible with support where needed. A challenge faced by the team was the impact of COVID-19 during the construction phase, which required evaluation of the interior layout to provide an isolation ward, which would enable lockdown of certain areas in future pandemic situations.
Resident comfort, wellbeing, and choice Broxbourne Nursing Home was built with optimum care and comfort in mind. Residents should feel at home relaxing
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