West Oak Village Long Term Care Centre - Oakville

TWFP – Architects & Engineers
Marina Huissoon – Project Architect

This facility is a dominant urban design element in a new residential community of Oakville.

The 3-storey, 133 bed centre includes 5 Resident Home Areas. Each Resident Home Area is designed as a V-shape, with all the social spaces and support services in the centre, and resident bedrooms in short wings on either side. The design in based on principles of clientcentered care, therapeutic and healing environments, universal design, and home.

The building is a community within a community. Many of the residents of a Long Term Care Centre have limited capabilities, and it is the intent to provide all necessary daily living services to the resident within the building. Around the basic Resident Home Area unit, there are congregate spaces for the community of the building as a whole. The importance of the social gathering within this community of (mostly) seniors is apparent in the celebration of space in the Gathering Place, Chapel, Harvest Room, which are at the heart of the building. In so far as practical, residents are free to wander both within the RHA, and to the generous outdoor spaces which includes gardens at the ground floor and outdoor decks at the upper level. The design of the gardens concerned issues of resident safety at the same time as enabling residents to fully enjoy the natural environment. Mechanical, Electrical, Structural and Civil Engineers – The Walter Fedy Partnership