St. Leonards Hospice, York

Allen Tod was appointed by St Leonard's Hospice to develop a scheme to expand and improve its existing facilities, built 20 years earlier.

Allen Tod developed a solution that reused the existing building for expanded day-care, care support and family facilities and moved the patient care accommodation to a new building, which includes a 20 bed inpatient unit and expanded administration facilities.

The relationship between patient bedroom and garden is maintained by a generous balcony which provides the rooms with sheltered out door space and views to the countryside beyond.

The new building is linked to the existing by two new link corridors which allow the hospice to separate public and private circulation.

The landscape design recognises people's needs to be close to nature and the therapeutic effect that landscape has on people's well-being. Two contrasting courtyards are formed: the staff courtyard is calm and relaxing and the main courtyard, overlooked by patient rooms and reception area offers a more vibrant sensory experience.

Garden areas adjacent to the day-care facilities provide active horticultural therapy with raised planting beds.

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