The Mariposa House Hospice in Orillia is a 10-bed (5 current and 5 planned) residential hospice set in a forested site, designed to provide dignity and comfort for residents and families. In 2022, a team of volunteers implemented a permaculture landscape design completed by Coolearth that now frames the hospice with a living, regenerative garden. …
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Progress is being made on the custom stabilized rammed earth home that Coolearth designed in Prince Edward County, Ontario. Considering that construction only began in September, and this site visit was at the end of December, things are moving along very well.
Having the choice of where to spend the last days of life is a valuable consideration for many of those in palliative care. Hospitals often lack the comfort of a patient’s own home and yet, homes lack the support and ready assistance that a hospital provides. The Mariposa House Hospice offers 5 residential beds for …
Having the choice of where to spend the last days of life is a valuable consideration for many of those in palliative care. Hospitals often lack the comfort of a patient’s own home and yet, homes lack the support and ready assistance that a hospital provides. As the first compassionate care home in Orillia, the …
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Last week members of Coolearth visited Ryerson’s Rye’s HomeGrown, a roof top farm located on an Engineering building in downtown Toronto. The roof top farm was implemented in 2011 after an existing green roof became a pile of weeds and scrub. The students and administrators at Ryerson saw this as an opportunity to …
Architects are tasked with designing and supervising the construction of buildings. The landscape surrounding the building is integral to the building, and therefore we make a site plan which details all of this. The surrounding landscape can have a big impact on the climate inside and around the building, as well as the quality of …
