Alzheimer’s Respite Centre
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Alzheimer’s Respite Centre
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Day care and respite centre commissioned specifically for people suffering from Alzheimer's disease built in the remains of an 18th century kitchen garden
The challenge in designing a care environment for people Alzheimer sufferers is to produce calm, coherent spaces which reduce enervating distraction, aid orientation and encourage mobility.
The centre responds to these demands by creating a protected precinct of courts, gardens, interconnected social spaces, and private individual rooms all of which connect with the walled garden outside.
A labyrinth of pale yellow stock brick lows walls and buildings is broken up with timber pavilions conjugated with beams, panels, transoms and roofs, all adjusted to the human scale.
Data
- Begun: Jun 2006
- Completed: Sep 2009
- Floor area: 1,392m2
- Sector: Healthcare
- Total cost: £2.7M
- Procurement: Government Departments and Local Authorities Contract (GDLA 82 with Quantities) / Traditional Procurement
- Address: The Orchard Centre, Temple Road, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Materials 
Professional Team
- Architect: Niall McLaughlin Architects
- Client: Alzheimer Society of Ireland
- Structural engineer: Buro Happold
- M&E consultant: Buro Happold
- Quantity surveyor: Tom D’Arcy & Co.
- Acoustic engineer: Paul Gillieron Acoustic Design
- Landscape architect: Desmond Fitzgerald
- Fire safety consultant: John Greaney
- Main contractor: Lissadell Construction Limited
- Building Control Officer: Oliver Muhr, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council
