Glenside Campus Redevelopment, Adelaide Australia
Sector:
Masterplanning
Client:
South Australia Health
Role:
Full Architectural Services
Value:
AUD$130m
Status:
On Site
Medical Architecture are working in partnership with local architects Swanbury Penglase to design a new, 129-bed health facility providing specialist services for mental health and drug and alcohol care on the existing Glenside Campus site in Adelaide. This project brings together acute, rehabilitation, drug alcohol withdrawal, and perinatal inpatient units alongside outpatient, front-of-house, and office and support accommodation. The master plan locates these facilities adjacent to new retail, commercial, and residential precincts while creatively re-using the existing heritage asylum building to become an independent film centre.
The principle design objectives are to provide modern health facilities for Glenside as a place of refuge, safety, security and healing through demystification, destigmatisation, autonomy and integration with flexibility & adaptability, ecological sustainability and accommodation of diversity.
The concept is based on the client’s desire for integration within the community. Achieved to a high standard of aesthetic quality in a parklike setting courtyard buildings are arranged around a shared central “healing garden” which is accessible to both patients and the public in an aim to de-stigmatise the existing site. The facilities are configured for flexibility, and to provide a continuous gradient of privacy and security for consumers, to foster autonomy and support a recovery focused model of health care.
The Government of South Australia website