St David’s Hospice Care’s brief was for fifteen patient bedrooms all with en-suite bathrooms. In support of these bedrooms are further rooms and spaces including clinical offices, stores, bathrooms and sluices. The building also connects with the recently built day unit in order to share services. The site for the building was a steep area of grassed amenity land. The in patient unit is set out in an ”L” shape created to give optimum views and aspect for the patients bedrooms which face a leveled garden area retained by gabions filled with local stone. A campus feel and connection with the existing day hospice building has been achieved by using the longer leg of the new building, to define a rectangular landscaped quad garden. The building also retains levels to make the space usable for fundraising events. The location of the building was further influenced by a carefully retained sweet chestnut tree and the wish to set the building below the ridge of the hill thus reducing the development’s impact on the adjacent housing estate. The materials used incorporate timber shingles and stone from a local quarry and harmonize with the initial build and the open landscape. The two elevations that face on to the retained bedroom garden are defined by a douglas fir loggia. Each bedroom has large bi-fold rooms that open out with a flush threshold allowing patients direct external access with varying degrees of enclosure. This sense of privacy is further enhanced by the provision of privacy screens with integrated seating that enclose an “outside room” for each bedroom. The landscape to the West, has been designed to take full advantage of the long views and make a feature of the existing topography. The curving retaining wall is constructed using traditional materials, a battered “dry-stone” gabion wall, creates a level accessible landscape directly outside the hospice bedrooms. British Native trees at the lower level set within a wild flower meadow enhance the biodiversity. Inclusive design is at the heart of the hospice’s brief. Patients are at end-of-life or suffering from life-limiting conditions, and are dealing with disability, often in advanced age. At an early stage it was recognised that all patients and visitors would be best organized onto one level therefore the majority of the building is at ground level. The site being steeply sloped (in the foothills of the Brecon Beacons) set some significant challenges in relation to how external levels would be managed. Firstly in order to enable level access out onto the terraces into the landscape directly from the bedrooms, which creates a ground level close to the building. The Terrace outside the café and social hub has been created by levelling the quad garden area by extending a retaining wall from the previous build and further enclosing the terrace locally to ensure level access to this pleasant space. As with the bedroom terrace, bi-fold doors allow any width of access and allow the feeling of being outside even for those too vulnerable to go fully out of doors. Immediately in front of the entrance there is a large drop off round-about that allows for the easy drop off to enable comfortable wheelchair and ambulant access directly to the building, Within this area are positioned four accessible parking spaces. The other parking spaces are to the South of the building, here levels have also been carefully managed to enable relatively comfortable ambulant access with no gradients steeper than 1 in 21 on the pathway to the entrance. Furthermore there is a level pedestrian route from Blackett Avenue all the way to the in patient entrance. We were successful in Winning the RIBA National Award 2018, RWAW Welsh Architectural Award 2018 and the Eisteddfod Gold Medal for Architecture 2018 for this project as well as a 'Commendation' at the Civic Trust Awards 2018.