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1. Code: 15.1144
Title: “Getting out”
Making a residential care home
garden valuable for residents
with dementia, York
Category: Commercial

2. Secondary brief: Visitors & staff
1. Visiting family enjoy taking their resident
family member into the garden more frequently
2. Encourage (great) grand-children to visit
3. A relaxed sanctuary for staff to unwind
4. Ensure a sense of place that fits the late
19th century architecture
5. Increase parking from 10 to 20 spaces
Principle brief: Residents
1. All residents receive active & passive
therapeutic benefit from the garden
2. An accessible & beautiful garden which
is part of the resident’s daily lives
3. A zoned garden tailored to resident’s
needs & the program of care
4. Best practice of dementia-friendly
gardens used

3. Project statement/concept
The concept is a response to the resident’s needs
& designed into two zones:
1. Home Homely scale, design & aesthetic with
nostalgia, for comfort & familiarity
Accessible and secure (some areas without staff)
Near the house and accessible by foot/wheelchair
2. Trips out Immersive ‘trips out’ by electric buggy
Character areas around the parkland as
destinations: Orchard, meadow, pond,
woodland, animals, open lawn
Buggy route inc. four short themed walks
From consultation with residents they shared how
much they miss their own gardens, feel stuck
indoors & also miss trips out to the countryside.
Todays body of evidence surely requires that all care homes have a duty of
care to provide adapted gardens & gardening for resident’s health

4. Site context and Analysis
A Jacobean manor house with 8.5 acres
has been a care home since the 1970’s.
43 of the 47 residents have dementia.
The grounds are not adapted nor used
by residents (locked doors) creating a
beautiful opportunity to make this large
garden accessible to residents to improve
their physical & mental wellbeing.
Access is key due to scale of the site
& lack of site adaptation to date
Site has superb enclosure with mature
trees & beautiful views to the north & east
Parkland has too much void but an
opportunity for new character areas
Woodland allows for immersive buggy route

5. Masterplan: York care home
Scale: 1:250 on A0M
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6. Visual 1: Birds eye view of the full garden looking north west
Please note that the pathways have been artificially highlighted to show the
buggy route and paths through woodland

7. Visual 2: View looking south from the terrace social area, overlooking the
parkland garden to the meadow and main pond beyond

8. Visual 3: View east at the junction of the buggy route and pond walk, looking
at the picnic area by the pond

9. Visual 4: View north east from
the corridor of the private rooms
through the perennial border,
the lawn, new fruit orchard to
the pavilion
Visual 5: View south east from
the wood lodge & micro-garden
looking down the dense
woodland avenue & buggy
route

10. York care home detailing:
Plan of inner garden
SCALE BAR 1:100
0 5 10 15 20M
Nature garden
Active therapy - north loop
Passive therapy - south loop
Productive
garden
Active therapy
Staff supervision
Terrace
Secure garden
accessed from
the unlocked
house.
Inc. Rose gar-
den, intimate
seating, game
area & oval
covered social
area Parklands garden
140m walk to simulate a walk
through your local park
Staff
garden
Scale: 1:100 on A1

11. Detailing: Sectional elevations
Terrace & Parklands walk looking south-west
Terrace & Nature garden looking south-east
Nature & staff garden looking east
SCALE BAR 1:100
0 5 10 15 20M Scale: 1:100 on A1

12. Visual 6: Terrace from the east side looking west along the terrace, to
the apple tree and rose garden destination