Search
Close this search box.

Ipswich Hospital Mental Health Acute Inpatient Services | Hassell

Ipswich Hospital’s Acute Mental Health Unit builds on a foundation of healing to create an environment that nurtures wellbeing and mindfulness. The interiors are integral to the holistic design concept, establishing a setting of calm, restoring dignity to the healing journey and normalising mental health care in the community.

Through the codesign process, Hassell collaborated with consumers, carers, clinicians, allied health professionals, operations staff and community groups to shape the healing environment. Meaningful engagement with First Nations representatives has delivered a culturally safe environment with integrated landscapes, bush medicine, sunlit interiors, colours that reflect Country and artworks by local artists.

STEAM Precinct Brisbane Grammar School | Wilson Architects

The STEAM Precinct is an integrated multidisciplinary education facility which is not simply a new science building but rather reflects a whole of school approach pedagogically, physically and culturally.

Highly flexible classrooms wrap around a four-story high incubator space with suspended group study Petri dishes pods that give the space its character and reinforce the intended behavior around creative thinking.

The building explores themes from interconnected extended learning, highly pedagogically flexible teaching spaces and creating environments that invest in student directed/owned independent and collaborative space. The resulting innovation pushes the boundaries of team teaching, multidisciplinary learning and peer support.

Tarakan Street Social and Affordable Housing | NH Architecture, Bird de la Coeur Architects and Openwork+Tract

This redevelopment of a government–owned site in West Heidelberg comprised of 130 tenure–blind social and affordable homes, is one of the first delivered in the Victorian Government’s Big Housing Build.
The three buildings respond to the scale of their suburban context ranging from 2 storey townhouses to 6 storey apartments. Entries are designed with a low number of keys per entry enabling small communities to flourish, providing a sense of address for all residents. The foyers and corridors are naturally ventilated by light–filled openings and provide numerous spaces for gathering and pausing.
The apartments have been arranged to be flexible post–construction through careful structural design. Two smaller dwellings can be inexpensively combined to form one slarger one without structural or services modification. The large balconies provide outlook without compromising on privacy. Additionally, the material palette draws inspiration from the site’s flora and references the site’s history as an Olympic village.

Array at 1 Eden Park Drive | Architectus

Array at 1 Eden Park Drive is one of the newest commercial office buildings in Macquarie Park.

The client’s brief was clear; deliver a visually and technically unique building while also achieving high environmental standards.

The eastern face addresses Eden Park Drive’s central precinct, with the western façade looking toward Lane Cove Road. The building steps down to the east to complement the scale of the precinct.

Carefully chosen materials embrace views and connections to public spaces while shading offices. White terracotta cladding and black framed glazing accentuate the building’s form and dynamic façade pattern.

Using thermal mapping, the façades shading was oriented to block harsher sunlight from the north and west and open the building to its east. The parametric modelled solution balances performance and amenity.

Striving for high environmental targets, the distinctive design is also highly sustainable, with features including innovative cooling, best practice waste/recycling, internal/external bicycle parking, and end of trip facilities.

Wurriki Nyal Civic Precinct | COX Architecture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTM_pFuA-Okhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY8O19JcJschttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om_TZKpEYCIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMCjvAyGjrkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG9GcTYojb4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX1Py2JCm1s

Instagram Youtube Linkedin-in Facebook-f Tiktok Pinterest
Chapters
ARCHITECTURE.COM.AU
The Institute

The Australian Institute of Architects acknowledges First Nations peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the lands, waters, and skies of the continent now called Australia.

We express our gratitude to their Elders and Knowledge Holders whose wisdom, actions and knowledge have kept culture alive.

We recognise First Nations peoples as the first architects and builders. We appreciate their continuing work on Country from pre-invasion times to contemporary First Nations architects, and respect their rights to continue to care for Country.

© Australian Institute of Architects

This form is now closed.