BAS 3

Mental Wellness Centre Site

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Mental Wellness Centre Brief

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1 AIM

To design a small centre for mental wellness in its urban context which provides the support needed by patients and their families to be able to cope with mental illness issues from home. The main ideal of such a centre is to facilitate the re-integration of mental health patients into the community. As this is a half-way centre between a psychiatric hospital and complete recovery, the design needs to address gradations of conflicting requirements: protection vs reintegration into society, supervision vs independence, safety vs dignity, security vs autonomy. A portion of the design will be taken through to ergonomic detailing for both design and construction assignments.

2 LEARNING OUTCOMES

To explore appropriately relating a building to an urban context.
To develop the skill of working with hierarchies and interrelationships that was first touched on in the Montic design.
To learn how to resolve conflicting requirements in a brief.
To practice designing with people in mind for a user-group with very specific needs.
To take your own design through to technically detailed design level.

3 PROJECT BRIEF

Design a 3-storey community mental wellness centre for a private health care provider, situated on the erf above the garage at the corner of Empire Rd & Joubert Street at the foot of Constitution Hill, (Parktown) Johannesburg. Their aim is to provide all the necessary support facilities that will enable mental health care patients to live a productive life, re-integrated into society, outside psychiatric hospitals as far as possible. This includes preventative care, day-care for home-based patients who cannot function independently, ongoing support for recovering patients and educating families/ the public on mental health care issues. The aim is to re-integrate patients into society, so this centre should provide a soft edge for interaction with society and do all it can to break down the stigma attached to mental health care.

It must
provide protection and safety both to patients and to the public
uphold the freedoms of the constitution for patients as far as safety will allow
treat all people with dignity and as equals
recognize and support the special needs of patients
provide a real benefit to the public to draw them there and catalyse integration

PREVENTATIVE CARE: Information on mental health; consulting rooms for mental health care professionals
DAY-CARE:For discharged patients recovering from acute care,
For mentally challenged well people,
For well people at risk who need access to help e.g. epileptic children:
Suitably differentiated care/supervision, productive activity workshops, social contact.
OUTPATIENT SUPPORT: Consultations with health care professionals, therapy groups, support groups for patients and families, protected social re-integration
COMMUNITY INTEGRATION: Public comes to consulting rooms & information sessions & services such as ATM. Shop for produce ; coffee-shop contact point, library

(The actual room arrangement/size will vary depending on your concept of how your building will address these needs. Look at Neufert for sizes
Consulting rooms accessible to the public for all types of mental health care practitioners:
shared facilities: receptionist
waiting room
staff sitting room & tea kitchen (S.O. = staff only)
group therapy / meeting room
therapy room with attached store for PT equipment
toilets for public
pharmacy (optional)

consulting rooms: each needing a WHB, space for a desk & 3 chairs & an examination bed
general practitioner
psychiatrist
occupational therapist
physiotherapist
spiritual counsellor
psychologist
social worker

offices: Schizophrenia foundation
AD support group
Anxiety & depression support group
Shared library
Small lecture room for 50 people

small coffee-shop: seating area for 30 people
shop
serving area (S.O.)

kitchen serving coffee shop & day centre: (S.O.)kitchen
storage
cold room
refuse room
laundry
linen room
cleaner’s store
catering office
yard area

Day Centre: for supervised patients & staff only. Patients can be taken to medical appointments, etc. under supervision. This area to be designed so that patients cannot injure themselves if they want to.
Dining room for 100 people
OT activity room for 20 people with store
2 Sheltered employment workshops for 10 people each
TV lounge for 30 people
Quiet lounge for 30 people
Visitor’s lounge adjoining public area for 6 people
Kids play room opening onto outside play area for 20 people
Toilets
2 Dormitory rooms with 4 beds each
Nursing station (= central supervision) for 3 nurses
Admin & reception office
Staff lounge & toilets (S.O.) for 10 people
Sluice (S.O.)
Dispensary (S.O.)
Examination room
Isolation room.

General: safe garden areas needed for patient recreation.
Covered staff parking for 30 cars
Public parking as required by council
Garden tool storage
Security office with wc

4 P R O C E D U R E :

Come up with appropriate concepts that can be tested on site.
Get site info from council, from observations, from Google Earth, from measuring, etc. & visit.
Test how your concepts could work on site. Use model as a design tool.
Do hand-drawn concept design to scale (1:100 on bumph) Test & resolve.
Do final presentation drawings & model & present…
At evaluation, identify which projects have similar issues as yours and group yourself together for the Ergonomics project. Choose whose design you will work on and which portion offers interesting exploration. Each identify a component you will design in detail.
Design & refine & check with each other. If group is happy, compile drawings for model section.
Build model!

5 R E C O M M E N D E D R E A D I N G :

B O O K S : SA National Building regulations
Neufert, A: Architect’s Data

6 TEACHING AND LEARNING METHODS

An introductory lecture will take place on Monday 3 March at 08h15 by Ariane Brief to be discussed after school talk. Monday lectures will address the conflicting issues outlined in the aim. Some guest speakers on mental wellness issues may also participate.

The first site visit on 6 March will be to explore and evaluate the urban context of and initial responses to the site. Since the site is close, you should revisit it when you have formulated your concept design to check it.

Ongoing interactive learning takes places in studio crits on Mondays and Thursdays with tutors. Sit in on at least the crit before & after yours; discuss your designs with one another. Make sure you have a tutor crit at least once a week.

Final evaluations are a major learning event: We will invite a mental health professional to comment.

7 PROJECT SCHEDULE AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURES

WEEK 5: CENTRE DESIGN: Briefing, site research, generating & testing design concepts
WEEK 6: CENTRE DESIGN: Fitting centre brief to concept: 1:200 concept design, plan &
section, tested on site
WEEK 7: CENTRE DESIGN: Design development & resolution at 1:100
WEEK 8: CENTRE DESIGN: Final resolution & presentation
WEEK 9: ERGONOMICS: Identify shared issues & form groups; choose project & portion to
detail. Efficient small room design considering safety, dignity and
facilitation of the handicapped. Students work interactively on
individual explorations.
WEEK 10: ERGONOMICS: Individual components finalized by Mon; group project building.

CENTRE DESIGN: SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING: 1:500 site plan showing its relationship to surrounding sites and what happens on them, as well as medical and other related facilities in the vicinity. Your complex: 1:100 plans, sections, elevations sufficient to describe the whole design. (i.e. if it needs 5 sections, do it!) and a 1:100 sketch model. The model and ground floor plan should show the design up to the site boundaries. Drawings A1, any medium, but they must form a graphically evocative set which conveys both the design intention and technical resolution.

Submission: sign it in at 08h00 on 7 April, pin up after school talk, feedback 14h15 onwards…

ERGONOMIC DESIGN: SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING: 1:5 detailed model of the selected portion for the group; each member’s design development sketches and 1:5 shop drawings for their particular component(s) presented on A1.

Submission: sign it in at 08h00 on 21 April, pin up after school talk, feedback 14h15 onwards…

8 ASSESSMENT CRITERIA AND PROCEDURES

· Does this design relate appropriately to the urban environment?
· Has the design met the requirements of the brief?
· Does this design advance the re-integration of mental health patients into the community?
· Is this a safe, facilitative and emancipating environment for recovery from mental illness, and does it respect human dignity and human rights?
· Has the concept been taken through into the detailed design?

The design staff will view and discuss the work that has been pinned up and assign marks as a panel, then give thorough feedback on a few projects that illustrate most of the issues and give brief feedback on the other projects. Students are expected to be present for the whole feedback session and should take their work back at the end of it.

The Best of Montic Submissions

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Below are images of the best of the Montic submissions. 13 are missing their appropriate credits, so please help me out by adding a comment to this thread with author and corresponding no name submission.

BY: TARYN COURTNEY

BY: CALVIN VAN ACHTERBERGH

BY: SVEN LEISEGANG

BY: NO NAME 1

BY: DWAYNE CHINNER

BY: PHILLIPE ANGELO RAFFNER

BY: KIM NEWELL

BY: TARUSHIN PATHER

BY: MARCO VALENTE

BY: TIEN WEN WU

BY: NO NAME 4

BY: MICHAEL CORNWELL

BY: NO NAME 6

BY: PHILLIP BAER

BY: SECHABA MAAPE

BY: NICOLETTE GARET

BY: NICOLETE GARETT

BY: NO NAME 10

BY: TSELENG PHALA

BY: CAITLYN MANICOM

BY: NO NAME 12

BY: AMY MANIA

BY: NO NAME 13

FEEDBACK - CHILDZONE PLAY PLACE

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Hi! That was great. You did it under pressure and the work you produced had a lot of energy and fun in it: I actually felt less tired after marking all day than I did at the beginning. We want to photograph the models. Please bring them again on Thursday afternoon 7/3. We're busy getting the photos onto the blog but it takes time. Volunteers please speak to Feige. All students who got A's or B+ and want to enter for the competition, bring your work for a joint tutor's crit on how to proceed Thurs 7/3. Thanks...

TUKKIES SCHOOL TALKS

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5 March: Myra Fassler-Kamstra : Inscapes, Outscapes and Landscapes - an Odyssey

12 March: Lisa Rautenbach, (Educator, EduCad) talks on Competitions: Open Think Box Childzone and Living Spaces 2008 Gypoc.

2 April: Don Albert: Brand (new) buildings - Architecture as BRAND

16 April: Prof Keith Beavon (Geographer - Author: Johannesburg; the making and shaping of the city) Johannesburg to Sandton and back again: a 35 year journey!

13h30 in Boukunde 3-3:
University of Pretoria Deptof Architecture 1st Semester Open Lecture Series 2008
Enquiries: Tel. (012) 420-3778, archi@postino.up.ac.za

WHAT'S ON AT UJ

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UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG
FADA- Faculty of Art & Design

Upcoming Events

Johannesburg and Megacity Phenomena
9 – 11 April 2008
The Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture’s Research Centre: Visual Identities in Art and Design, in collaboration with the editors of the New Encyclopaedic Project, are hosting a three-day colloquium entitled: Johannesburg and Megacity Phenomena.

This colloquium will involve presentations, some on-site, of academic and practice-based research that deals with Johannesburg and its interface with megacity phenomena. A public exhibition and lecture will form part of the colloquium. Details will be available on the FADA website soon, and those interested in receiving further information can be placed on a mailing list.

Childzone Open Think box

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Brief:

Design a play space for your Ithuba primary school, according to the competition brief given on www.openthinkbox.co.za : it should address the needs of 6-13 year olds, would be used by the school users and will be secure within the school grounds so it doesn't need to be a building, unless you want to make it all-weather. For your design submission, it can be part of your building. For a competition entry, you would have to make it independent.

Submit designs Monday 08h00 in studio before theory lecture. Submission must consist of a 1:50 model, plans, sections & elevations required to describe it and quick notes on copies of these drawings showing the possibilities the design offers.

Enjoy it!

Contour Site Plan

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Courtesy of the survey group here is the rough estimate of the contours. Its 1:500 in A2 format. The road through the site s 4m wide.

MONTIC BRIEF

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1. Task 1 is to design a masterplan, as in the project handout, showing buildings in the Ithuba masterplan pdf. Off-hand, recall

- administration / entrance with approx 2 offices for site management, 1 for primary, 1 for high school, 1 for skills training & 1 for housing.
primary, 4 classrooms approx 45-60msq ea. with childrens ergonomics, & a shared toilet, (to be developed for TASK 2)
upper school 4 " " .
hall as per pdf
skills centre as per pdf
housing for teachers, staff, approx 50msq ea in a linear arrangement of 2 wings on the South boundary, (to be developed by LK & AjvR).
housing for students to be used as bed & breakfast skills training along the East (sports field) edge as per pdf

Illustrate with site plan showing fall of 2m accross the site to North, with site models, scale 1:500.

2. Task 2 is to develop the design for the primary classrooms with plans & sections & sketch model at 1:100 or 1:50.

3. Task 3 is to divide into task groups for the construction of the model housing unit for Mr Muushe, to be built in June on site

Fundraising literature (including a CD?)
Fundraising PR to approach companies
Materials measuring with Wits Quantity Survey dept
Materials order and coordination to consult with Michele Riedmatten for Construction
Site management for materials & setting out, storage tools etc.
Site foreman (one of our own!)
Site construction team
Materials and parts backup for site
Website
Surveying

Task 3 will be assessed as part of the project mark. You need to be in a group and working on it by the end of today, 18 Feb.

Montic Farm Site Plans

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Above is the old masterplan, the landscape masterplan and the google earth site image

Welcome

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Hi All

This is the official new class blog. If you want to be able to add posts on the site send me your email address to feige.t.l@gmail.com and I will send you an invite.

Feige