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• The Glenside redevelopment brings together a number of key mental health drug and alcohol services onto one site with purpose built facilities.Designed to promote the sharing of inpatient activities the building accommodates an art room, music and performance space, fitness suite, sensory room, IT room and multi-faith room.

  Designed as a garden pavilion, the building is located directly in front of the Specialist Rehabilitation Services Inpatient Unit.  This creates a buffer to the more public shared garden but allows secure client access.

  For larger gatherings, the main performance space and gym suite are designed to be opened up to each other and also to the outdoors, where the spaces can spill out under the large covered terrace overlooking the shared garden. Multiple entrances allow flexible use by different consumer groups and clients. The foyer spaces provide opportunities for display in the form of a gallery for consumer and client artwork.

  In contrast to the surrounding inpatient buildings on the site, the building façade boasts a more commercial and public presence and internally, a bold urban colour and material palette has been used to reflect this.

The Glenside redevelopment brings together a number of key mental health, drug and alcohol services onto one site with purpose built facilities.

The Rehabilitation unit consists of four conjoined pods.  Each pod contains a number of bedrooms (typically 8-10) arranged around a private secure courtyard. The courtyards provide a high quality therapeutic environment offering a range of spaces for sitting and walking as well as security, without creating a sense of detention.

Each pod is linked by a generous corridor having the character of an internal mall. This space gives access support to spaces such as administrative and consulting offices, as well as providing a “front door” or main point of access.

Overall, the building is configured to provide a sequence of spaces from private and secure to public to support the model of rehabilitation for consumers, from the ultimate privacy of consumer bedrooms and ensuites though to full engagement with the public realm. The internal colour palette reflects this sequencing by providing greater colour saturation in public spaces and less colour saturation in private zones.

The warm colour and material palette is unique for this building and reflects the Adelaide Hills region. The internal spaces are safe and homely and have been designed to be timeless with durability and maintenance in mind.

The Glenside redevelopment brings together a number of key mental health drug and alcohol services onto one site with purpose built facilities.

Helen Mayo House provides treatment for women with significant emotional or mental health and wellbeing issues in the peri-natal period and promotion and preservation of the mother-infant relationship.

Contained within one building Helen Mayo House is a six bed unit offering parents, babies and siblings (0-3 years) up to an eighteen day stay.

The day space and bedrooms are arranged around a private secure courtyard. The courtyard provides a high quality therapeutic environment as well as catering for children with the provision of play equipment and sensory outdoor activities.

The warm colour and material palette is unique for this building and reflects the Adelaide Hills region. The internal spaces are safe and homely and have been designed to be timeless with durability and maintenance in mind.

The Glenside redevelopment brings together a number of key mental health, drug and alcohol services onto one site with purpose built facilities.

Designed to accommodate clients withdrawing from alcohol and drugs over a five day period, the DASSA unit consists of three conjoined pods.  Each pod contains a number of bedrooms (typically 8-10) arranged around a private secure courtyard. The courtyards provide a high quality therapeutic environment offering a range of spaces for sitting and walking as well as security, without creating a sense of detention.

Overall the building is configured to provide a sequence of spaces from private and secure to public to support the model of rehabilitation for consumers, from the ultimate privacy of consumer bedrooms and ensuites though to full engagement with the public realm. The internal colour palette reflects this sequencing by providing greater colour saturation in public spaces and less colour saturation in private zones.

The calming colour and material palette is unique for this building and reflects the South Australian coastal regions. The internal spaces are safe and homely and have been designed to be timeless with durability and maintenance in mind.

The Glenside redevelopment brings together a number of key mental health, drug and alcohol services onto one site with purpose built facilities.

Designed to accommodate short term consumers in need of immediate care, the Acute Building consists of three conjoined pods.  Each pod contains a number of bedrooms (typically 8-10) arranged around private secure courtyards and day spaces. The courtyards provide a high quality therapeutic environment offering a range of spaces for sitting and walking and provides security for consumers without creating a sense of detention. The building also accommodates the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit as well as an ECT suite which can be accessed by the general public.

Overall, the building is configured to provide a sequence of spaces from private and secure to public, to support the model of rehabilitation for consumers, from the ultimate privacy of consumer bedrooms and ensuites though to full engagement with the public realm. The internal colour palette reflects this sequencing by providing greater colour saturation in public spaces and less colour saturation in private zones.

The earthy colour and material palette is unique for this building and reflects the Adelaide plains region. The internal spaces are safe and homely and have been designed to be timeless with durability and maintenance in mind.

The Glenside redevelopment brings together a number of key mental health, drug and alcohol services onto one site with purpose built facilities.

The ‘Front of House’ building acts as a portal into the site and provides a public face to the health facilities. From the Front of House building, each of the inpatient units can be reached through the shared garden. Whilst the administrative and non core inpatient staff are based here the major focus of Front of House is to provide educational and conference facilities. The building also includes staff facilities, including a lounge, kitchen/dining space, showering and locker facilities.

In contrast to the surrounding inpatient buildings on the site the building externally boasts a more commercial and public presence and inside adopts a unique urban colour and material palette to reflect this.

This project was undertaken as a ‘design construct’ arrangement with Bardavcol, Tonkin Consulting and Nilsen. The Munno Para Train Station aims to deliver a new and upgraded transport interchange that will be a functional, robust and aesthetically pleasing precinct, integrating urban design, architecture and engineering components to produce a cohesive environment.

The development is an important opportunity to improve the urban fabric of Munno Para, providing an elegant, contextually appropriate and cost effective response for the public domain which becomes the focal point of the area and visually connects into the proposed ‘main street’ of the precinct upgrade.

The design considers the human scale and long term usage through planning a facility which is light, visually uncluttered and durable and the vitally important crime prevention through environmental design. The selection of materials comprises of a minimal palette to provide a visual consistency and deliver a subtle branding for the train station precinct.

This project for the South Australian Department of Health (Major Projects Office) was for the development of a new 129 bed integrated health facility for mental health and substance abuse. Swanbury Penglase in association with specialist firm Medical Architecture (UK) have developed a benchmark facility based on a new consumer orientated model of care. The facility is an embodiment of evidence based international best practice.

This was a complex and sensitive project designed to replace an existing facility with a new adaptable, state-of-the- art, integrated health facility which responds to the need for ‘sanctuary’ as well as ‘normality’. The services include inpatient, outpatient, administration, education, training and facilities management.

The project embraces the challenges of integrating mental health services into the community in support of demystification and destigmatization as envisioned by the Social Inclusion Board in the landmark 2006 report ‘Stepping Up’. The report triggered creation of the 2008 Glenside Campus Master plan of which the new health facilities are a key component.

The facilities are specifically designed to support autonomous recovery paths and a decentralized, interactive model of care. A high degree of therapeutic value has been achieved through spatial variety and close integration of the built facilities with richly provisioned public and private open spaces. With a continuous gradient of privacy and security is provided to foster autonomy and support the recovery based model of care.

Developed with clear zoning, all inpatient units are designed using the same concept model: a series of pods contain the ‘private’ on-ward activities thus the creation of secure & private gardens using the building form linked by a ‘mall’ off which shared spaces are accommodated, with the ‘public’ face of the building providing flexible and adaptable generic accommodation.  The based on the client’s vision to create a campus integrated within the wider community, the facility adopts a ‘village’ urban design model in a park-like setting the buildings are arranged around a common central shared garden The project has achieved to a high standard of aesthetic quality.

The facilities completed in July 2013, have already achieved recognition with an award in 2011 from the International Health Design Academy for Future health Projects for its salutogenic vision and recognition of the process of consultation and embedded innovation.

Staff are already reporting that consumers occupying the first stages of the facilities in 2011 are very happy with the new accommodation, and a survey of consumers in the Supported Accommodation units identified 100% of residents reporting an improvement in satisfaction with  accommodation, and 67% reporting improved independence.

“To see residents sitting in the sun on their front porch interacting with the neighbourhood and its activities is a symbol of why we are doing this project” – David Forster Project Director MPO

“This is a significant milestone for mental health services in South Australia. The new Glenside Health Service is a key element of the state’s broader mental health reforms and places South Australia as a leader in this field. The transition from an outdated asylum style of care to a modern, flexible environment which provides mental health consumers and staff with a space to promote healing and recovery is transforming how we provide mental health care.” – Premier Mr Jay Weatherill July 2013

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The new Lefevre Community Stadium is located adjacent to the State listed heritage homestead on the Lefevre Peninsula of Adelaide and will provide community sporting facilities for the City of Port Adelaide Enfield.

The facility is designed to maximise passive Environmentally Sensitive Design (ESD) principles and will comprise of 2 indoor basketball courts, a multi function room, meeting rooms, offices and amenities.

Working in association with Melbourne based John Wardle Architects, the M² project provides state of the art facilities for postgraduates and local and overseas researchers in the fields of Materials and Minerals sciences. Occupied in part by staff from The Wark and Mawson Institute, the project provides an approximate equal amount of laboratories (including a Class 10,000 Cell Therapy Suite), teaching spaces and administrative areas.

With a high level of audio visual and IT infrastructure included in the brief requirements, opportunities have been explored to greatly improve and enhance methodologies of teaching and learning, with all areas capable of visual interconnection. At the heart of the floor plan, a ‘Theatre in the Round’ provides an innovative and immersive teaching and learning experience, enabling researchers to effectively exchange ideas and impart them to student and others.

Acting as a new ‘iconic’ entry building to the campus, the building facades are expressive of the materials and minerals disciplines and will ensure a striking contribution to the built form of the Mawson Lakes Campus.

This residence for a retired couple located on the outskirts of Lobethal on a sloping site touches the ground lightly and is nestled amongst the tree canopies.

Due to the slope of the land and the desire to minimise the impact on the site, the residence is comprised of two independent pavilions perpendicular to each other suspended above the ground. The upper level, with the main entry being from the access roadway, provides the living area, whilst the lower level caters for sleeping and guest areas of the house.

Arrival to the site is announced with a large concrete entry slab from which point the suspended walkway is launched, providing the linkage to the entry of the house.

The large full height north facing windows with appropriate overhang protection provide ample light year-round and warmth in winter whilst capturing views of the adjacent rolling pastures.

Central to the design are ecologically sustainable principles and the clients’ requirement for minimum maintenance.

The need for additional space for a teenager/young adult has been the purpose for this addition to an existing pavilion style house. The original residence is designed as a series of three pavilions linked together with courtyards containing water features and the latest pavilion continues this theme in a contemporary manner.

Pavilion No 4 is positioned within the garden and the design philosophy is centered around the indoor and outdoor space being one and incorporating ecologically sustainable principles.

The reverse brick veneer wall of the western boundary visually anchors the glazed walls of the addition within the garden. In addition, this wall provides acoustic treatment against the adjoining train-line and solar protection of the western side of the building.

The end result is the formation of a room within the garden.