This project involved the design and documentation of a new 100 bed Residential Aged Care Facility on a green-field site in suburban Ipswich. Catholic Healthcare Limited (CHL) is an experienced aged care provider and the project was closely designed around their operational model. A key aspect of the design was the need to provide affordable care on the urban fringe, and as a result construction costs where tightly controlled. The design team responded to the client’s operational brief for facilities that respect and enable choice for individuals.
In their own words CHL believes that in order to provide socially normal environments, the built environment will reflect a domestic scale. It also includes access to communal social areas, which enable the individual to function and participate within the community, to the level they desire. As far as possible, care and service are provided within a socially normal and domestic approach. CHL’s aim is to provide the highest quality of care to those who reside within their facilities, in a manner which enables an individual to experience life in all its complexity to the limits of their desire and capability. The provision of care is essential to ensure that each person is comfortable, pain-free, socially able and, where possible independent. The privacy and personal dignity of each individual is central to the provision of care at CHL. The built environment should provide a supportive, safe environment for residents and for staff to work efficiently. This translates to a domestic “home-like” environment rather than an institutional one, which incorporates a welcoming entrance, generous room sizes, social spaces, domestic interior design and furniture styles.
The project manages to meet particularly specific constraints for building area and construction cost while never losing sight of the quality of space and lifestyle afforded to the residents. A tight budget and accelerated programme for documentation required considerable discipline and attention to detail from the design team. Importantly, our service also extended to interior design, fittings, furniture, artwork and decorative items, coordinating the transfer of items of emotional value from the nearby Villa Maria facility due to close. This attention to detail serves to reinforce the homely and domestic sensitivity of the facility.
This project involved the design and documentation of a new 100 bed Residential Aged Care Facility on a green-field site in suburban Ipswich. Catholic Healthcare Limited (CHL) is an experienced aged care provider and the project was closely designed around their operational model. A key aspect of the design was the need to provide affordable care on the urban fringe, and as a result construction costs where tightly controlled. The design team responded to the client’s operational brief for facilities that respect and enable choice for individuals.
In their own words CHL believes that in order to provide socially normal environments, the built environment will reflect a domestic scale. It also includes access to communal social areas, which enable the individual to function and participate within the community, to the level they desire. As far as possible, care and service are provided within a socially normal and domestic approach. CHL’s aim is to provide the highest quality of care to those who reside within their facilities, in a manner which enables an individual to experience life in all its complexity to the limits of their desire and capability. The provision of care is essential to ensure that each person is comfortable, pain-free, socially able and, where possible independent. The privacy and personal dignity of each individual is central to the provision of care at CHL. The built environment should provide a supportive, safe environment for residents and for staff to work efficiently. This translates to a domestic “home-like” environment rather than an institutional one, which incorporates a welcoming entrance, generous room sizes, social spaces, domestic interior design and furniture styles.
The project manages to meet particularly specific constraints for building area and construction cost while never losing sight of the quality of space and lifestyle afforded to the residents. A tight budget and accelerated programme for documentation required considerable discipline and attention to detail from the design team. Importantly, our service also extended to interior design, fittings, furniture, artwork and decorative items, coordinating the transfer of items of emotional value from the nearby Villa Maria facility due to close. This attention to detail serves to reinforce the homely and domestic sensitivity of the facility.
This project involved the design and documentation of a new 100 bed Residential Aged Care Facility on a green-field site in suburban Ipswich. Catholic Healthcare Limited (CHL) is an experienced aged care provider and the project was closely designed around their operational model. A key aspect of the design was the need to provide affordable care on the urban fringe, and as a result construction costs where tightly controlled. The design team responded to the client’s operational brief for facilities that respect and enable choice for individuals.
In their own words CHL believes that in order to provide socially normal environments, the built environment will reflect a domestic scale. It also includes access to communal social areas, which enable the individual to function and participate within the community, to the level they desire. As far as possible, care and service are provided within a socially normal and domestic approach. CHL’s aim is to provide the highest quality of care to those who reside within their facilities, in a manner which enables an individual to experience life in all its complexity to the limits of their desire and capability. The provision of care is essential to ensure that each person is comfortable, pain-free, socially able and, where possible independent. The privacy and personal dignity of each individual is central to the provision of care at CHL. The built environment should provide a supportive, safe environment for residents and for staff to work efficiently. This translates to a domestic “home-like” environment rather than an institutional one, which incorporates a welcoming entrance, generous room sizes, social spaces, domestic interior design and furniture styles.
The project manages to meet particularly specific constraints for building area and construction cost while never losing sight of the quality of space and lifestyle afforded to the residents. A tight budget and accelerated programme for documentation required considerable discipline and attention to detail from the design team. Importantly, our service also extended to interior design, fittings, furniture, artwork and decorative items, coordinating the transfer of items of emotional value from the nearby Villa Maria facility due to close. This attention to detail serves to reinforce the homely and domestic sensitivity of the facility.
Products
Professionals
Projects
Inspiration
Articles
