A positive impact ‘on the other side of the world’

One Creative Environments (One), a multidisciplinary building design company which has its headquarters in Worcester, and a London office, is well established in the healthcare sector, and works on a wide range of healthcare projects as far afield as the Falkland Islands. Its healthcare design work encompasses facilities ranging from care homes, extra care, and dementia care units, to palliative care units, primary care centres, hospitals, car parks, and other facilities supporting the medical sector, such as key worker/student accommodation. 

The Falkland Islands is a picturesque group of islands with unhindered views of the South Atlantic Ocean, providing the perfect setting for an architecture of healthcare that is both contemporary and respectful to the sensitive surroundings. Our brief from the Falkland Islands Government was to design the first ever purpose-built Vulnerable Persons Extra Care Facility in the Islands, a facility which will provide excellent independent living facilities for the frail and elderly, as well as those living with a disability, learning difficulty, or those in need of dementia care. The new facility is intended as a focal point and new model of care to serve the Falkland Islands, as the Government develops a new way forward for their ageing and vulnerable population. It also needs to take the pressure off King Edward VII Memorial Hospital (KEMH) in Stanley, the Islands’ only hospital, which itself has a phased redevelopment plan in place, with One commissioned to design the first phase of this work. 

Defining the brief