Adanac Park
These designs were on behalf of Hamblerley Developments to deliver Hamberley Neurocare Southampton, a 57-bedroom neurological rehabilitation facility in Nursling, and the adjacent Hamberley Templeton Place, an 80-bedroom care home.
Shortlisted for the Healthcare Design Awards Best Primary Care, Southampton Neurocare is a specialist neurological rehabilitation service supporting adults across Hampshire. The specialist team, including rehabilitation therapists, nurses and life-skills’ specialists, offers life-changing neurocare.
The design of the building focuses on the needs of both resident and carers to provide the best possible care. Rooms are sized to suit residents, whilst also providing suitable space for carers to assist those with higher care needs. Corridors are wide and easy to pass, which also extends to the garden pathways.
| Type: | Care Home & Neurocare |
| Client: | Hamberley Developments |
| Location: | Southampton |
| Scale: | 57 beds (Neurocare), 80 beds (Care Home) |
| Status: | Completed |
The large café to the front entrance presents a welcoming, friendly environment for residents and visitors. This opens out into the secure side garden with a meandering pathway to the central courtyards. A mix of sensual planting is visually stimulating, fragrant and can be touched, providing calmness and activity to residents.
The overall elevational design provides a striking appearance mirroring the neighbouring Templeton Place, however the difference of materials ensures that Southampton Neurocare has its own identity on the site.
Templeton Place is a luxury residential 80-bedroom home, where older people can enjoy life in a welcoming community. The general approach to the design of the home was to facilitate the best practice in dementia design, to create friendly and homely spaces that are both functional and inviting.
The spacious layout ensures that the home is easily accessible to residents, allowing them to flow between the home’s offerings while staff have good sightlines to monitor residents. Bedroom doors are staggered to reduce confusion to residents and provide privacy. The rooms are well sized creating a comfortable homely space that supports the needs of residents as conditions deteriorate and ensuring dignity is maintained.
The communal spaces encourage interaction and engagement for the residents, bringing them out of their bedrooms and into the community of the home.
The designs of both Southampton Neurocare and Templeton Place adopt a fabric-first approach to ensure the thermal performance of the fabric is maximised to reduce heat loss and energy waste.
Residents’ bedrooms are designed to orientate to the east and west with north and south aspects limited where possible to minimise solar gains. Glazing sizes have been considered to maximise light and ventilation whilst utilising low-emissivity glass to control heat gains.
Heating is via a highly efficient boiler providing heating and hot water in a central plant room to minimise pipe runs. An EPC A rating has been achieved by utilising a combined heat and power unit to act as the primary heat source. Heat pump driers have been used along with an electric induction hob to minimise gas usage. In addition, the building features full-fill cavity wall insulation to provide enhanced U-values than required by Building Regulations.
Find out more about Hamberley Neurocare Southampton at Hamberley Neurcare Southampton Find out more about Hamberley Templeton Place at Hamberley Templeton Place
