Burgess Park
Client: Country Court
Main Contractor: Horizon Building Contractors
Structural Engineer: CDS
MEP Engineer: Willow Tree Design
Landscape Architect: Macfarlane Associates
Planning Consultant: Avison Young
BREEAM Consultant: SRE
Interior Designer: Samantha Lord Interior Design
Stage: Complete
Awards: Leaders In Care Awards - Care Home Design Of The Year / Shortlisted for the Pinders Healthcare Design Awards 2023, as a finalist in the Best Exterior Design category / Finalist in the 2022 Care Home Design of the Year, LIC Awards /
Burgess Park is a contemporary redesign of an existing care home planning approval in Southwark. It sets the bar high, aiming to improve the quality of life for those residing, working and visiting. There has been a focus on refined interiors and a fabric first approach, whilst also improving building legibility and efficiency. A conscious drive has been to improve the experience not only for those living in the home but for friends and family. The top floor of the building provides activity spaces, a private dining room and a clubhouse with views across a roof top garden.
The re-worked façades reference the Georgian and Victorian Townhouses of neighbouring streets such as Addington Square and Camberwell High Street, and were developed to accord with both the client’s aspirations for a contemporary yet residential sensibility and those of the local authority, who were looking for both contextual references and a desire to punctuate the overall building mass. The resulting design is a subtle division of the façade into a series of ‘townhouses’, albeit with contemporary use of timber in distinct areas such as where the building addresses the corner of the plot.
The design builds on trends seen in associated sectors such as later living, whereby warm yet notably contemporary designs are starting to become the sector aspiration. One distinct aspiration of the design at Burgess Park is to encourage the importance of social interaction between residents, staff and visiting families as being so key to health and wellbeing for all, even if at a distance.
The project has developed into what the client and operator see as one of their ‘flagship’ care homes; in the capital and seen as the perfect context to promote a higher quality, ‘stand out’ building.