



Lentor Health Nursing Home (West Coast)
Lentor Health Nursing Home West Coast (LHNHWC) is a fenceless nursing home developed by Ministry of Health (MOH) Singapore, that comprises a Nursing Home (NH), Senior Care Centre (SCC) and Home Care Office (HCO). Part of a design study collaboration between National University of Singapore, Urban Redevelopment Authority, Ministry of Health and MOH Holdings Pte Ltd, the nursing home aims to provide future-ready and sustainable resident-centric care, with dementia-friendly, safe, enabling, therapeutic environments promoting Health, Independence, and Ageing with Dignity, closely integrated within the community. The design emphasis on fostering a sense of belonging for residents. Not only to add years to life, but life to years.
Key elements include resident-centric care, elder-friendly design, versatile facilities, community-based care in place and pandemic-resilient features, aiming to create safe, enabling environments for health and independence. The project reflects a holistic approach to elderly care, integrating physical, emotional, and social well-being into facility design. It supports ageing with dignity while staying closely integrated with the community. Key objectives are to advance innovative care models and enable affordable, quality care. Additionally, the project aims to strengthen community integration while enhancing buildability and operational efficiency.
Project Details
Project country
Singapore
COMPLETION DATE
2023
SERVICES RENDERED
Architecture Design
Interior Design
Landscape Design
Wayfinding Design/ Visual Communication
Service Design
AWARDS / YEAR
President’s Design Award 2025- Design of the Year 2025 (Architecture and Design categories) (shortlisted)
MOHH Infrastructure Excellence Awards 2025
- Innovation Excellence – Platinum
MOHH Innovation & Technology Excellence Award 2023 (Merit)
MOHH Construction Excellence Award 2025 (Gold)
Design & Health International Academy Awards 2025
- International Health Project (Under 40,000sqm) – Highly Commended
- Salutogenic Design Project – Highly Commended
- Winner: Sustainable Urban and Built Environment – Winner
- Interior Design Project – Highly Commended
World Architecture Festival 2024 (shortlisted)
INDE. Awards 2024 (shortlisted)
No. of storeys
10 storeys
Gross floor area
12,420m2
Key Features
Resident-centric Care
Providing elder-friendly person-centric care, focusing on mental wellness. Creating intimate and welcoming spaces.
Flexibility and Adaptability
Through providing future-ready, pandemic resilient provisions – Flexibility via modular resident bedroom cabin units which can be modified and adapted to changing residents or operational needs.
Fostering Care in Place as Care+ Hub
Nursing Home caregivers lounge and family pavilion for public, family and caregiver support, networking, learning and training. Extending eldercare into the community (beyond confines of Nursing Home) as a more sustainable model of care.
Integration of LHNHWC with the Community
Integration of the Nursing Home with the community is enhanced through fenceless ground-storey porosity, barrier-free dementia-friendly garden seamlessly integrating with adjacent public housing’s adult/elderly fitness corner and park-connector network.
Promoting Self-reliance and Independent Activities
To enhance intra-floor social cohesion within the Nursing Home, group activities, physiotherapy and dining are decentralised to dayrooms with adjacent sky-garden on resident floors. Perimeter social corridor connecting residents’ bedrooms’ (households) balconies encourages residents to socialise.
Reactivating Connections
Enable fenceless NH to integrate with neighbourhoods, fostering strong social capital and forming a robust wellness community.
Creating Safe and Enabling Environments for Health, Independence and Ageing with Dignity
Inclusive compassionate environment within and around the Nursing Home including therapy gardens, wandering areas, reminiscence corners, activity zones, intuitive wayfinding encourages and enables residents to engage in activity for better wellness.
Developing A Sense of Identity within a Social Setting
Residents’ cabins feature beds, storage, and personalised panels, promoting individual identity and ownership, and providing a personal space for each resident. These cabins are clustered in households, with shared social spaces fostering neighbourly connections and a sense of belonging.
Therapeutic Facilities that are Dementia-Friendly
The layout and facilities balance resident security and access to social and green therapeutic environment, supporting healing and recovery. Sky gardens adjacent to communal dayrooms allow safe access while providing visual enjoyment and healing comfort within a high-rise form.
Enhancing Mobility
Ramps connecting resident floors facilitate looped wandering paths, with decentralised activities providing unique social opportunities on each floor and in social enclaves outside households.
