Bromley by growth
My project aims to create a space within the post industrial house mill house, to cater for a range of people under NHS care.
People with a variety of sensory, neurodiverse, and age-related health conditions can be free to feel at home in my simple and calming design.
The heart of the building, taking place of the whole second floor, is a kitchen, used for the production of bio building materials, created from the product of the sensory installation in the lower floor.
Inserted cabins populate the building creating a village of houses within the existing. these houses are accessible for use by therapists and support workers to help patients feel at ease in a sedate, welcoming, and non clinical environment.
The houses which are placed on alternate floors are connected by narrow bridges supported by the existing beams which also serve as a viewing platform for central void.
On the lower ground floor the flooding of the building is celebrated and the dark conditions are made of use for the growing of forced rhubarb, which crackles an audible experience when it grows rapidly in the environment which was once deemed uninhabitable.
A hot bathing pool also occupies the lower ground floor for use as a a meditative, contemplative space for visitors to relax in a space where their worries are lost.
Mist fills the central void of the building, and falls, creating privacy from each side of the building, using light, artificial rainbows are created within the void which create optimistic colour against the harsh, industrial mill.
