The Tideview Terrace (TVT) Long-term Care Facility is a 90-bed nursing care facility with 18 beds dedicated to residential care. The client’s goal with this replacement facility was to achieve improved and expanded services in a healthy and pleasant living and working environment. To support this goal, the new facility had to be highly functional – accommodating modern technologies, clinical education space, and an expanding community role - while also providing a warm and friendly atmosphere.
To create a more intimate and home-like space, the facility was designed as smaller, residentially-scaled ‘houses’, with each 9-bedroom ‘house’ having its own kitchen, dining room, living room, and laundry room. In addition, each resident ‘house’ is served by its own front door, and the covered porches, lanterns, and ship-lap siding contribute to that maritime house-like feeling.
Residents have on-grade access to the secure outdoor gardens and walking paths, which allows them to enjoy both the living spaces and the outdoors. The designers recognise that residents will spend the majority of their time indoors – due to lifestyle, inclimate weather, etc. – so the landscape areas are also structured to provide visual interest from indoors.
To ensure that the facility provides the care and service required of a long-term care facility, the resident ‘houses’ are physically interconnected through a background building. Informal nursing stations are incorporated into open-concept common areas between ‘houses’. Tideview Terrace also includes a commercial kitchen, commercial laundry, hair salon, multi-purpose rooms, meeting rooms, and administrative office areas.
The project is pursuing LEED Silver Certification and features energy-efficient systems including a geothermal energy plant, solar-heated domestic hot water, water savings devices and low water use irrigation, as well as sustainable materials, natural day-lighting that makes use of ‘light towers’, and natural ventilation
To create a more intimate and home-like space, the facility was designed as smaller, residentially-scaled ‘houses’, with each 9-bedroom ‘house’ having its own kitchen, dining room, living room, and laundry room. In addition, each resident ‘house’ is served by its own front door, and the covered porches, lanterns, and ship-lap siding contribute to that maritime house-like feeling.
Residents have on-grade access to the secure outdoor gardens and walking paths, which allows them to enjoy both the living spaces and the outdoors. The designers recognise that residents will spend the majority of their time indoors – due to lifestyle, inclimate weather, etc. – so the landscape areas are also structured to provide visual interest from indoors.
To ensure that the facility provides the care and service required of a long-term care facility, the resident ‘houses’ are physically interconnected through a background building. Informal nursing stations are incorporated into open-concept common areas between ‘houses’. Tideview Terrace also includes a commercial kitchen, commercial laundry, hair salon, multi-purpose rooms, meeting rooms, and administrative office areas.
The project is pursuing LEED Silver Certification and features energy-efficient systems including a geothermal energy plant, solar-heated domestic hot water, water savings devices and low water use irrigation, as well as sustainable materials, natural day-lighting that makes use of ‘light towers’, and natural ventilation
Tideview Terrace held their grand opening event on September 29th, 2011.
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