Farrow Designed Complex Continuing Care Wing in Norwich, Canada.
May 20, 2023
Photography of the Farrow designed new Bethany Care Home Complex Care Centre have been released.
There is no such thing as a neutral space.
What we create either causes health
or erodes our ability to thrive;
socially, economically and culturally.
There is no such thing as a neutral space.
What we create either causes health
or erodes our ability to thrive;
socially, economically and culturally.
Enriched Environments
Enriched environments—environments that cause health—result from the combination of seven elements. These elements stimulate our brains’ biological and chemical operating systems, acting like architectural “super vitamins”. With demonstrated powers to improve health as measured though neurological, physiological, psychological and sociological feedback. They are important in creating enriched healing, working and collaborative knowledge-sharing spaces.
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Nature
Places inspired by natural shapes, light & materials.
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Variety
Spaces that offers a range of experiences & a sense of discovery.
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Vitality
Settings that are energetic & restorative.
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Authenticity
Spots that are valued for their realness and rootedness.
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Optimism
Environments that radiate a positive abundance.
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Sense of Occurrence
Venues where you feel engaged and stimulated.
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Legacy
Surroundings that communicate purpose and a sense of something bigger.
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Farrow Designed ‘Forest Room’ Dining Hall
May 17, 2023
The TMS Elgin Mills Dining Hall ceiling, known as the ‘forest room’, is supported by six timber multi-stemmed column grouping, each consisting of three diagonally placed straight columns, in a triangular arrangement in plan.
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Farrow’s Mass Timber Education Facility Progressing
May 16, 2023
Appearing like spaghetti - wrapped curved timber columns - 8m/26ft in height, awaiting installation. TMS middle school building. Farrow Partners collaborators are TriAxis Construction Managers, Aspect Structural Engineers, and Timber Systems.
Ideas
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Venues With a ‘Sense of Occurrence’
March 3, 2021
March 3, 2021. Venues with a ‘sense of occurrence’ make us feel engaged and stimulated. We sense the energy of the built surroundings and the people in them, prompting us to think, act and feel in new, unexpected ways.
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Can and should learning environments communicate optimism?
February 3, 2021
February 3, 2021. Places with optimism radiate youthfulness, abundance and life. They have a contrast of mass and gravity - of light, lightness and flight; a sense of weightlessness that defies gravity and encourages an upward gaze.
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Places Transmit a Psychological ‘Temperature’
January 12, 2021
January 12, 2021. Places transmit a psychological ‘temperature’ which we ‘feel into’, known by the German word ‘stimmung’, meaning atmospheric mood, often associated with music and the state of an instrument once it is tuned.