Project description

The ‘Child Resilience Centre’ is dedicated to supporting children and adolescents under 18 as they navigate the challenging journey after the loss of a loved one.

Designed as a nurturing environment, the centre offers a comprehensive range of services tailored to address various aspects of grief and coping. These services include access to playground facilities, hands-on craft workshops, family retreats, counselling sessions, and specialised professional training.

Housed within a former Edinburgh church, the centre ingeniously incorporates a “safety net” feature that spans across two floors, facilitating vertical movement within the playground area. This innovative design element serves as a metaphorical and literal shelter, symbolising a sense of security and home-like comfort for bereaved young individuals seeking solace and support.

Brief

Healing
Caring
Sharing thoughts, feelings and memories Counselling
Discussion
Remembering lost

Brief
Users and Functions

CHILD & YOUNG PEOPLE

4-8 - play area, activities, family counselling

8-12 - play area, activities, family counselling, group counselling

12-19 - play area, activities, family counselling, group counselling, individual counselling

(Under 12 need to be accompanied by adult, over 12 could come on their own)

 

FAMILY 

Away Days - help family to be away from grieving

Counselling - in group or individually

 

PROFESSIONALS

Training sessions - gain understanding of the theories of loss, develop practical strategies, gain greater confidence

Counselling - managing their own well-being, reduce grief impact, build resilience, build life-work balance

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Research
Concept

Create a warm and welcoming atmosphere that heals children and help with feelings. Use three colours represent three symbols, yellow as healing activities (flowing lines showing cheerfulness and hopefulness), red as bad motions (angular figure showing that it might hurt children themselves or others), grey as professionals for help (a neutral colour showing calm). Bad emotions gradually accommodated, dissolved and eventually disappear.

Concept
Site

Frankenstein is a themed bar on George IV Bridge, the heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town, a stone’s throw away from the popular tourist destinations along the Royal Mile. This property is located within the Old Town Conservation Area. Built as Martyr’s Free Church for the Reformed Presbyterian Congregation (later United Free and then Elim Pentecostal). A public house in 2000.
The current building has two entrances with main entrance on west side of ground floor (George IV Bridge) ,and east entrance on basement (Candlemaker Row), currently used as fire escape and back door.

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Address: 26 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EN, FRANKENSTEIN PUB

Listing: B listed. Listed on 29 April 1977

Year of design: 1859

Original type: Decorated Gothic Church

Designer: Charles Leadbetter

Year of Refurbishment: 2015

Designer of refurbishment: J. A. LEASK Architects

Main Space

Sketch of proposed main space showing climbing nets and seating, considering materials. Climbing net showing net landings and structure proposals. Visual difference of materials with lines and colours.

Main space
Collage

Showing visual proposals of materials and key features in key space. Ceiling and featured windows of existing building. Include two floors with climbing net extend upwards through void area. Add possible furnitures and try different combinations.

Collage
Mood Board

Proposed material selections and colour palette on side. Associated with proposed products. The combination of fabrics and timber makes the space more welcoming and accommodating, while protecting children's movement within the space. The blur mirror effect painting on ceiling reflects net below.

Mood Board
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