Ferguson Mann Architects are assisting with a pioneering new-build project which will provide high quality accommodation and social spaces for elderly armed forces veterans and medical students. This non-medical relationship will be about helping to transform lives through social relationships and friendships, providing therapeutic advantage, alleviating loneliness and isolation, and enhancing well-being.
We will be working with the charity, Project Equinox, and housing association, Places for People, to develop the Equinox Centre in Plymouth City Centre, providing housing for 43 veterans and 48 medical students with gym, fitness circuit and roof garden; and a veterans’ cafe open to the wider community. Residents will partake in weekly one-to-one student and veteran ‘buddying’, group get-togethers, and students will organise monthly entertainment evenings, and weekend day excursions.
A Plymouth veteran said “I think the idea of the Equinox Centre is one of the best I’ve ever heard. A mini ‘Chelsea Hospital’ is what Plymouth needs to nurture its veterans and the involvement of the medical students would be fantastic. Friendship is one of the best things in life and age should be no barrier.”
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