Design ideas

The further away from the entrance/ground, the more private, the more 'like home'. Extend the structure upwards.

Or, mirror the structure in the field in front - this space needs to be kept so to preserve this, go down?
The grounds are the things most commonly refered to and remembered by psychiatric patients as being somewhere free, unrestrained.

Potential precedents:

• Bessboro psychiatric unit: Mcullough Mulvin Architects, Dublin (originally an 18th century house the chapel and maternity hospital then repurposed as a psychiatric unit).
• their projects are worth checking out!
• Huggenbergefries architects (Swiss) geriatric psych unit in Switzerland
• look in particular at their solution for preventing falling from balconies using the perforated brick facade see
• Detail, 2012, v.52, n.6, p.637-641. (journal article) (English; German
• See this video of a psychiatric hospital project in Rodez, France (St Marie Clinic) - not sure I like the design, makes me feel uneasy somehow but the commentary is interesting