Four designs and eight colourways from Forbo Flooring Systems’ Marmoleum floor collection have created a durable, design-led, resilient surface flooring solution for NHS Tayside’s new CAMHS unit in Dundee.
The new £8 million facility will provide ‘round-the-clock care’ for young people across the north of Scotland coping with mental health conditions.
Director at Dundee-based Gauldie Wright & Partners and project architect, Peter Kingston, said: “This new building is bright and welcoming, and we wanted to achieve a surface flooring solution that would enhance its design internally. The Marmoleum collection offers a great range of designs, with the advantage of a large colour palette, allowing us to create exactly the finish we were looking for.”
Adding an extra dimension to the corridors with its ‘retro-yet-modern linear design’, 600 m2 of Marmoleum Striato in the warm tone of Compressed Time is fitted throughout. A more colourful pattern, Colour Stream, ‘sets the tone perfectly’ for the Art Resource Room, while the Lavender Field colourway and the complementary Donkey Island from the Marmoleum Vivace collection feature in classroom areas. In the bedroom wings, Marmoleum Real, with a ‘classic marble structure’, features in three contrasting colours to assist wayfinding.
The building also incorporates Forbo’s Coral Welcome entrance flooring, a textile ‘clean-off’ range that the company says ‘can reduce the costs of cleaning by up to 65%, and stop up to 94% of walked-in dirt and moisture entering a building’.