M.Arch in Architecture (RIBA Part 2)

Kayleigh Derry Year 6 2023

Intergenerational Forest Nursery

Prefiguring a child-friendly, age-friendly Sheffield, the Intergenerational Forest Nursery creates a strong social infrastructure. The scheme set to be completed by 2050 situates a forest nursery within a memory care community. By providing residents experiencing dementia with regular access to physical exercise, intellectual stimulation, and social interaction, memory care communities use non-pharmaceutical interventions to improve brain health and slow the effects of dementia. Allowing inner city children to experience the benefits of a forest nursery, the scheme provides the children with natural materials for play as well as regular interactions with the elderly residents that live on site.