Designing Lives Not Administering Them.

The main objective of the interior design was to create rooms that emphasise the personality and individuality of the nursing home’s residents. The design concept promotes their independence, while at the same time responding to the specific needs of elderly people. Even during a stay in a nursing home, its residents should be able to lead a life of dignity and security, and ideally, feel completely at home there. The home is on a single level that is organised in a clear and structured way. All rooms are wheelchair-accessible and can be easily located in one of the two wings.

The spacious recreation areas establish homelike focal points, which support easy orientation. Thanks to specially-positioned seating niches, the corridors, which would otherwise just be spaces to move through, become communication zones. Each niche is equipped with two comfortable chairs, a small table and a table lamp, and is protected and contained by a tapered, translucent curtain. This creates an island with an almost intimate feel: the perfect retreat for a private discussion or reading a book, while at the same time remaining in contact with the outside world.

The materials and colours concept is designed to create a homelike, non-institutional atmosphere, and also to stimulate. Walls are painted in light tones in accordance with a differentiated colour scheme, or decorated with wallpaper. The oak furniture forms a gentle contrast and conveys a sense of home, which is complemented by the warm, greyish-brown linoleum floor. Recreation areas are highlighted by means of inlaid carpet islands. No two bedrooms are the same. Keeping with the idea of individualisation, each room has its own palette of colours. Wall colour, accent colour and curtains harmonise to create a new combination and different mood for each room.

Their form and materiality make standard fittings appear familiar and comforting. And generous shelving and storage possibilities create numerous ways of customising each room with personal touches and effects. All this serves to make each room unique.