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Amberwood, Dementia Centre of Excellence

Client
Accord Housing Association
Location
Burton - on - Trent
Project Leaders
Claire Samuel Jim Hayles Andy Tansill
Size
45 Ensuite units

Challenge

Quattro’s challenge was to design a care home development specifically for residents with differing levels of Dementia, such that the design could be repeated around a main central ‘Hub’. The final design should allow for flexibility and provide 90 units around the central hub. The scheme brief for Amber Wood required 45 units with a luxury home-like environment. The building and care service support, required for up to 45 adults with dementia, would be across three exemplary households of 15 care bedrooms, each supported by a range of communal facilities offering a unique arrangement to assist residents in their day to day lives. We were also being challenged to achieve the specialist Sterling Gold assessment for dementia.

Sector
Dementia
Later Living & Care
Care Homes
Dementia
Awards
'Gold Standard' for Dementia Design
Services
Architecture
Partners
Keepmoat Contractors

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Quattro Design Architects Care Home and Later Living Architectural Design
Quattro Design Architects Care Home and Later Living Architectural Design
Quattro Design Architects Care Home and Later Living Architectural Design
Quattro Design Architects Care Home and Later Living Architectural Design

Solution

Residents are part of households that have been individually decorated to aid orientation and way-finding, with sound and acoustics sympathetically designed, and lighting selected to give a modern, yet homely, feel.

The household itself has a domestic style layout, with an open plan kitchen where residents are encouraged to engage in meal preparation and cooking.

The dining area is split into both large and small spaces, giving the households flexibility to have mealtimes either together, as a group of 4-6 people, or as individuals, depending on the residents’ personality and confidence.

Each household is arranged around an internal courtyard with a peripheral corridor route, having the desired effect of subdividing the 15 care bedrooms with two means of access, providing natural destination points along the route. Two means of access to the courtyard from the corridor, allows for an intimate, secure and enclosed garden area and can be part of a resident’s circuitous routes.

The contemporary lounge provides generous space standards, with a separate cinema room enabling the lounge to be TV free, whilst the “snug” offers a quieter meditative ambiance.

There are activities available for residents to either engage in groups or pursue their own interests in smaller communal areas, or even in their own private rooms.

In addition, the ‘Hub’, which sits at the heart of the building, offers a range of facilities including a small shop with café, hairdressers and meeting room, adding to the enrichment of the scheme.

Equally important is the main garden area which is extensive and secure, designed to provide intimate spaces associated with each household, note the first-floor household have their own roof terrace garden. Residents have the freedom to wander throughout the garden area with seating areas strategically located along the route and at all destination points.

To be able to deliver this level of care in a Stirling Gold Standard facility is fantastic. To achieve Stirling Gold Standard means that every aspect of the building, from the layout, right through to the smallest details such as the position and the colours of doors...cont/

Maxine Espley, Executive Director
Accord

cont/...the location of furniture, even the colour and design of the individual bathrooms have been specifically created to support people living with dementia. Very few homes achieve this standard and we are truly delighted to be able to provide this level of care and accommodation here at Amber Wood.

Maxine Espley, Executive Director
Accord

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Clients and Partners

Accord Housing Association
Agincare
Alliance Homes
BrendonCare Enterprises Ltd
Bromford Group
Deeley Group
Housing Lin
Housing21
Jehu Projects Services
Linc Cymru
Lioncourt Homes Ltd
Llanthony Secunda Priory
Live West Homes Ltd
Local Homes Ltd
Northampton Partnership Homes
Rooftop Housing Group Ltd
Oxfordshire County Council
The Abbeyfield Society
Vistry Partnerships
Ambient
Churchill Retirement Living
Speller Metcalfe Ltd
Swindon Borough Council
Willmott Dixon Construction

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