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Trinidad House, Over 55’s Development

Client
Poole Housing Partnership
Location
Poole, Dorset
Project Leaders
Jim Hayles Andy Tansill
Size
54 Units

Challenge

Quattro Design Architects was the successful Architects in a competition to design a 54-unit Extra Care scheme for Poole Housing Partnership.

In addition to providing apartments, this ‘flagship’ project brief required the provision of a community hub within the Trinidad Village development for adults aged 55+ years and over.

Sector
Later Living & Care
Over 55's
Sustainability
Services
Architecture
Sustainable Design

Gallery

Later Living Over 55s Sustainability Trinidad Dorset interior

Solution

A courtyard scheme design served to maximise use of the site and provided a central private garden.  A more public terrace to the south east combined with the scheme café and restaurant is arranged to overlook and integrate with the principal entrance into the Trinidad Village.

The scheme is fully compliant with HAPPI design guide’s 10 key elements such as: balconies and outdoor space, ‘single banked’ corridors providing natural light to circulation spaces, shared facilities and hubs, with shared spaces and sustainable fabric first energy-efficient design, open garden areas and private garden spaces.

The scheme was designed to meet BREEAM excellent and incorporated key sustainable design features including:

All apartments have been orientated to the south west and south east with significant roof overhangs or balconies above the principal windows. This provides passive solar heating during the winter whilst shading the windows during the summer when the sun is at its zenith.

MVHR (Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery) is installed in all apartments and to the communal areas, this together with a significant airtightness value of just 3 air changes, contributed to significantly reducing heating requirements.

The design included features to enable future enhancements including low pitched South facing roofs with standing seams to support additional PVs and an increased plant room space that will allow for the future installation of biomass or heat pump technologies.

We worked to engender a modern forward-looking quality, incorporating generous glazed screens to living rooms, glazed balconies and crisp-edged zinc cladding and roofing selected for its environmental credentials.

The scheme has the benefit of being part of a mixed community that can support adults with a variety of needs. It will support older people, people with memory loss and dementia, learning disability, physical disability.

Valuable concessionary services were made available to both residents and the wider community including: Halo Unisex Hair Salon, Foot Health Practice, Film Club, Guest Room and Counselling Services.

The landscaped gardens complement the design to provide a variety of experience, from the quiet tranquil Japanese garden to the north west, to the central courtyard garden offering a safe walking area with dry-riverbed features, arched bridge, water feature, seating areas and an abundance of sensory, dynamic and colourful plants.

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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
Live West Homes Ltd
Llanthony Secunda Priory
Local Homes Ltd
Northampton Partnership Homes
Oxfordshire County Council
Rooftop Housing Group Ltd
The Abbeyfield Society
Vistry Partnerships
Ambient
Churchill Retirement Living
Speller Metcalfe Ltd
Swindon Borough Council
Willmott Dixon Construction

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