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HEALING ENVIRONMENTS 5

Above: Site model with unique contours of quarry site

DROGHEDA PRIMARY CARE, 2011

A Primary Care Centre, medical practice suites, creche and cafe are integrated with the unique setting of a former quarry in this 5,000m2 development. The profiled contours of the site allow for semi-basement parking levels with a south facing, sheltered garden landscape.

Right: Medical practice suite, above and section through primary care centre and garden, below.

Following pages:- Approach view, Donore Road, Drogheda - Development model of site strategy - Main entrance and atrium to gardens

Below: Site landscape plan including convalesing home


STAFF AND SERVICE

CIRCULATION / CORES

RESIDENTS ROOMS

STAFF FACILITIES

SOCIAL SPACES

TERRACES / BALCONIES

Above: Sketch of typical bedroom with garden terrace

CONVALESCING HOME, 2011

Within our concept of a community health campus for South Drogheda, we have developed proposals for a 100-bedroom elderly care home, including patients with dementia. The integration of courtyards and gardens with the existing landscape is fundamental to the design.

Right: Site layout model, above and site landscaping plan, below.

Following pages:- Overview of design strategy for site - Interior gardens, landscaped courtyards - Entrance view, assisted living homes

Below: Overview of shared bedroom garden terraces


Above: Paper model of ‘time zone’ moving wall

NATIONAL DISABILITY AGENCY DUBLIN 2011

This award-winning proposal for the bollards of Dublin city centre is intended to ease navigation for both tourists and residents withvisual impairments alike; a new cap to the bollards allows users to turn a dial to receive an audible direction to the key sights and landmarks of Dublin city centre.

Right: Competition notice, above and team reviewing the needs of a Tom, a visually impaired cisitzen of Dublin.

Following pages:Diagram of Dublin’s landmarksPhotomontages of bollards in the context of Dublin city centre

Below: Interactive bollard, photomontage

Below: Interactive bollard, photomontage


24 Hour Universal Design ChallengeA JOURNEY INTHE CITY

12:00 – 12:45 Registration (Tea, Coffee and Light Lunch)

12:45 – 13:30 Awards Ceremony opening

Challenge Ambassador and Awards: Chair Sean McNulty,Institute of Designers Ireland

Challenge Co-Chairperson: Dr. Ger Craddock, Chief Officer,Centre for Excellence in Universal Design,

National Disability Authority

Challenge Co-Chairperson: Professor Mark Dyer,Michael McNamara Chair in Construction Innovation, Director,TrinityHaus,

McNamara Centre for Construction Innovation and Sustainability,Trinity College Dublin

13:30 – 14:15 Keynote SpeakerChallenge Patron: MichaelWolff, Co-founder ofWolff-Olins Design

Michael Wolff - On-Design

14:15 – 14:45 24 Hour Universal Design Challenge - OverviewChallenge Facilitator: Julia Cassim, Royal College of Art Helen Hamlyn Centre, London

14:45 – 15:30 DesignTeam Presentations: MC – Julia Cassim

15:30 - 15:45 24 Hour Universal Design Challenge - ReviewHighlights and stories

Jury DeliberationsPeople’s Choice Award collected

15:45 – 1600 Awards Presentations:Michael Wolff and Lord Mayor of Dublin, Cllr Emer Costello

People’s Choice AwardJudges’ Choice Award

16:00 – 17:00 Awards Ceremony reception: (wine & canapés)

Agenda

Award winning innovator DaminiKumar is European Ambassador forCreativity & Innovation, aprestigious role which she was

appointed by the EU Commission. Damini's manyawards include TheYoung British Female Inventorof theYear,AsianYoung Achiever of theYear andshe has been listed as one of the "Top 100 Womenin the World" by Cosmopolitan magazine. Daminigraduated from Imperial College London inMechanical Engineering graduate and latercompleted two M.Sc. degrees. She is aninternational expert in design and recognised forinventing the world's first non-drip spout. In 2007she joined NUI Maynooth in Ireland where shestarted and directed a new successful BSchonours degree in Product Design.Damini has had huge worldwide media interestwhich she has used productively and has devotedher professional career so far to industry andacademia in order to inspire creativity in others.

DAMINI KUMAR

she is, among other initiatives, developing astatement on Dublin DesignValues, developing apublic realm strategy and has established a set ofreference criteria for the assessment ofArchitectural development proposals.

ALI GREHANPrior to her appointment as DublinCity Architect in January 2008,AliGrehan worked on the urbanregeneration of Ballymun, becoming

Chief Architect in 2006. Earlier, as Senior Architectwith Fingal County Council she was involved in thedevelopment of Fingal's housing programme andFingal's approach to Local Area Planning. She was amember of the Light Rail Project Team, thatdesigned and delivered Dublin's first LUAS lines.Prior to that she worked in private practice inLondon and Dublin, most notably with GreenhillJenner Architects in Brixton on communitydevelopment projects.As Dublin City Architect,

Shane Hogan is a Senior StandardsOfficer with the National DisabilityAuthority. His main responsibility ismanaging their Excellence through

Accessibility (EtA) Award scheme,which accredits public bodies that have achieved ahigh standard in accessibility of Quality CustomerServices; Built Environment; and Information andCommunications Technology. Shane is currentlymanaging the development of an eLearning tool forintroductory Disability Equality Training for publicsector staff. Shane's previous role was managing theproject management office of Microsoft's EuropeanOperation's Centre in Dublin. Shane led a numberof key business transformation projects forMicrosoft across commercial, retail and gamingmarkets. Prior to joining Microsoft, Shane was ITManager for Johnson & Johnson Ireland and ITConsultant with KPMG. Shane has a B.Sc. degree incomputer science and an Advanced Diploma inProject Management.

SHANE HOGAN

Rodd graduated from the school of architecture atBrookes College, Oxford, in 1982, where his majorstudy focused on evaluation frameworks applied tothe design of primary care facilities in the UK.Rodd directs the Netwell Centre in DundalkInstitute of Technology (DkIT). Based in the Schoolof Nursing, Midwifery and Applied Sciences, theNetwell Centre hosts the Nestling Project – acollaborative initiative between the local authority,the HSE and DkIT.The Nestling Project examinesthe fusion of social networks, environments andtechnologies that support ageing-in-place. Roddhas managed Dundalk's participation in the WHOAge-Friendly Cities Project and is now managingLouth's Age-Friendly County Initiative.

Paul Fortune is Director of theMAN:MEDICINE Design Centre atNCAD and was recently head ofDepartment of Industrial Design,

where students are trained as user-centreddesigners, combining complex technical, resourceand economic issues with human needs. He is aFellow of the Irish Ergonomics Society and hasworked as a staff ergonomist and consultant inmany types of industry. Paul was manager of theProduct Design and Development Department atthe Irish Trade Board (now Enterprise Ireland) andhas extensive experience of product development.He was a founder member of the EuropeanInstitute for Design and Disability and served asexecutive board member until recently. He hasorganised several major conferences in Ireland onuniversal design related topics, including the Cityand Town for All; Design, Corporate DesignResponsibility and the Future and has participatedas speaker at many others.

PAUL FORTUNE

What a Load of Bollards



Route M crossing Millennium Bridge between Henry Street and Dame Street.


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Route M crossing Millennium Bridge between Henry Street and Dame Street.



BEACH HUTS, BOSCOMBE, 2010

Our entry to the Boscombe Beach Hut competition develops the traditional timber structure to a new arrangement with two distinct spaces. A partially covered space of colour and light acts as a transition between beach and shelter, with showers, towel racks and equipment storage. The warm timber cabin provides year round shelter and respite from the elements, wrapped in a reflective skin of stainless steel.

Right: Layered assembly diagrams

Following pages:- Design model showing interior space - Montage view of proposals in context- Image of materials and finishes

Above: View of traditional beach huts on the promenade

Below: Images of constructional layering


Above: View of main garden space and art rooms

AOIBHNEAS CHILDREN’S REFUGEDUBLIN 2010

Our proposed extension to the Children’s Refuge in north Dublin engages the full extent of the site with a series of timber pavilions and pergola structures, accommodating the specialist therapy, arts and play spaces. Each of the graden spaces lends a particular character, all to enhance the user’s experience of adjacent spaces.

Right: Layered drawing with perimeter garden wall and timber roof coverings

Following pages:- Walled garden and therapy rooms - Entrance area with garden beyond- Site plan showing landscape design

Below: View across Dublin Bay to Wicklow Mountains

Above: Detail of plan showing gardens and therapy rooms

Above: Exterior image of walled enclosure to garden

Below: Internal view of therapy room and water garden

pac 5 - healing environments

Documents

e n t sstaff

e n t sabove

e n t s healing environments

site model

primary care centre

mcnamara centre

bollards of dublin city

site layout model