1. There is a new vision for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. It should be a healing urban village, not a monolithic institution.
2. The possible dispersion of portions of the CAMH program (i.e. alternate milieu beds) allows us to break down the monolithic hospital institute that the old system demanded into smaller components that could be interspersed with other activities to weld mental institutions back into urban life and remove their isolation and stigma.
3. The surrounding existing built form is one of variety, diversity and complexity, mostly left over buildings from the turn of the early twentieth century such as the Candy Factory and two to three storey storefronts on the opposite side of Queen Street. The diversity of the CAMH program itself can be translated into similar buildings of great variety without resorting to false “Disney” facades.
4. The village should enhance and draw from the existing life in the surroundings and could integrate related CAMH facilities such as local community health centres, prevention, education and research facilities as well as the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Toronto. In addition, it could become a magnet for related technology and research buildings in the future.
5. The introduction of retail and other public uses at grade, particularly on Queen Street will reinforce the normal activity of street shopping which will permeate into the community and be a significant catalyst to stimulate more intense commercial activity opposite on the north side of Queen Street.
6. All efforts should be made to use the texture, massing and materials of the surrounding district to seamlessly blend in with the visual character of the place.
7. The CAMH site is organized into an urban grid of blocks and streets that reflect the urban development pattern, scale and character of the Toronto neighbourhood in which it is located. Respect for this fundamental urban form is basic to all six proposed alternative development concepts, although expressed differently.
8. A hierarchy of street types, corresponding streetscapes and adjoining land uses have been identified in the neighbourhood surrounding the CAMH site.
9. The new streetscape within the CAMH site is based on a hierarchy of treatments appropriate to each street's function, appearance and importance. Specific tree species, and density of planning assist in the differentiation.
10. The various concepts indentify different pedestrian connections, linking the site with the adjoining neighbourhood and provide more direct routes to public transit. The existing condition of the brick perimeter wall and its possible changes are an important consideration in making urban interaction.
11. Residential, Commercial and Open Space land uses are proposed on the CAMH site along the south and west boundaries to create a compatible transition with the current land uses and built-form of the adjoining residential neighbourhoods.
Conclusion
Here we can create a healing Centre for Addiction and Mental Health that will show a new direction in the field of mental health by its seamless fit into the urban fabric activities and its caring response to human emotions.
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