16 November, 2009
Broadway Malyan’s Rendezvous and Treetops at the White Lodge Centre has won the Judge’s Special Prize at the prestigious NHS Building Better Healthcare Awards 2009.
Broadway Malyan has worked with the White Lodge Centre, a charity supporting disabled children and adults in Chertsey, Surrey, for more than three decades. An increase in demand for its services in recent years led to the development of a number of new facilities, including Treetops, a new-build children’s respite centre, and Rendezvous, a new adult resource facility.
Both buildings are single storey and have large, dramatic sweeping roofs which channel light into airy circulation spaces and key rooms. The buildings use coloured insulated render while at Treetops the southern elevation is clad with untreated larch complementing the woodland setting beyond and meeting the brief of ‘a cabin in the woods’. Both buildings have utilised a high level of internal finishes to make the buildings welcoming and non-institutional. Developed to create an exemplar for future facilities, staff and patients were involved in the design from the start and both buildings have a number of sustainable features to cut down on running costs for the charity. The last two buildings complete the suite of buildings for the White Lodge Centre delivering a range of services to a broad spectrum of disabled adults and children in a non-institutional setting within a green belt landscape.
Broadway Malyan’s Woodhaven scheme won the Best Designed Mental Health prize at the same awards in 2004.
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