About the Building
Aboyne Rural Hospice is being thoughtfully designed by Fryett Turner Architects Inc. as a place that feels like home — a welcoming space where residents and their families can find comfort, dignity, and connection during life’s most meaningful moments.
Fryett Turner Architects Inc. is an architectural office in Elora with over 30 years of experience with a diverse portfolio both in private and public sector. Robert Turner, co-owner and a Registered Architect with 22 years’ experience of architectural projects, is the main architect of the new Aboyne Rural Hospice.
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Family Suites
The single-storey residence will include ten private (338.5 sq ft) suites, each designed with both residents and loved ones in mind. With natural light, garden views, and direct access to a private patio, every suite offers a peaceful, personal space.
Comfortable seating, an overnight sleep surface, and an accessible ensuite ensure families can spend meaningful time together, day and night.
Our design provides an alternative ‘home’ by maintaining the scale, comfort, and privacy of a family home while functioning as a healthcare facility. Residents will have the privacy they need, with enough space to be close to their families. Families will be welcomed into domestic-scale living spaces while visiting their loved ones.
— Robert Turner, architect
Common Spaces
Care is always close at hand, with clinical spaces carefully integrated to support round-the-clock attention while maintaining a calm, home-like feel. Staff and volunteers — so essential to this work — are supported with their own dedicated spaces.
A donor wall in the main corridor will honour everyone whose generosity helped build this place — a permanent expression of gratitude from the whole community.
The lower level provides space to support the hospice’s future, including areas for programs, meetings, and essential services and volunteers’ comfort, education and gathering.
Outside, the site has been designed with care — welcoming entrances, accessible parking, gardens, and room to grow alongside the community it will serve.
At the heart of the hospice is a shared family space — a warm, open area with a living room, kitchen, and places for connection, including a children’s play corner and coffee station. A quieter semi-private lounge, along with dedicated rooms for reflection and spiritual care, offer space for rest, conversation, and ceremony in whatever way each family needs.