New Children’s Hospice for EACH

Hospice Design for Care

The building is large, complex and highly serviced, as is necessary at times when looking after children with life-threatening and life-limiting conditions, but it is important that it doesn't feel like a hospital, more a 'home-from-home'. The bedrooms are full of highly technical equipment and services, but Health Care Architects Barefoot & Gilles have ensured much of it slides and shuts away so that in day-to-day use it isn't intrusive.

Each pair of bedrooms is connected through a shared assisted bathroom, enabling easy transfer from bedroom to bathroom via hoist if necessary. Every bedroom opens out onto its own patch of forest, a direct connection with the natural environment outside. The rooms also surround an inner courtyard with a sensory garden and window seats.