Corriewood Private Clinic caters to many infirm patients suffering from dementia. An 'L' shaped extension which formed a courtyard garden provided what was needed with continuous views of the open parkland and the familiar rear façade of the B2 listed Corriewood House. Bedroom doors were given individual colours in order to allow patients to identify their own rooms and in some cases, door ironmongery was changed to originals from patients’ homes.
Four new wings were built: a Chapel of Rest with structural glass lantern; a seven-bed Palliative care suite, a 15-bedroom block next to the original building and a 36-bedroom block featuring a roof garden. The primary structure is a prefabricated timber frame, with walls and engineered timber joist floor cassettes built in a purpose-built site factory. A liquid screed was installed on the upper floors to improve acoustic and dynamic performance of the floors.
The sloping site required the excavation of rock to nestle the buildings into the hill. To minimise the time, cost and noise disruption to existing residents, we proposed a shallow raft foundation without the need for deeper strip foundations. The only deeper excavations into rock were for the drainage, and this too was diverted to the shallow side of the building to improve buildability.
During phase 5 of the project, a new roof for the listed building was assembled on a scaffold under a temporary structure to minimise disruption to patients and staff who continued to use the existing building throughout the entire build.
Client: Corriewood Estates (NI) Ltd
Architects: McGurk Architects
Value:£4.0m
