Roseberry Park, Middlesbrough, UK

Client: Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Role: Lead Consultant, Masterplanner, Architect, Interior Designer and Landscape Architect
Value: £75m
Status: Completed 2010
Awards: RIBA Northern Network Awards 2011 – Gold Award and Hadrian Award – North East Project of the Year.
International Academy of Design and Health Awards 2010 - High Commendation 'International Mental Health'.

Roseberry Park is a 312-bed inpatient mental health facility with learning disability and forensic services for adults and older people. It has been designed for therapeutic purpose from the macro to the micro level where gardens and courtyards, each with their own sense of place and scale, provide a variety of sensory experiences for all users from the child visitor chasing a grass-hopper, to the frail, elderly patient, reminiscing in a herb garden. The free-flowing interrelationship between secure accommodation and safe garden landscape is achieved by innovative building and landscape layouts that invert the traditional mental health model, enhancing the healing process through interaction with nature.

"As we hoped, the new development has created a wide variety of external spaces that our staff and patients can enjoy. The imaginative approach taken not only presents the hospital in a welcoming, green setting but also provides a series of unit-specific opportunities to engage patients in outdoor therapeutic activity.”

John Ord - Associate Project Director, PFI Projects Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Highly Commended at the Design & Health Awards 2010

Roseberry Park, Middlesbrough, UK

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