Glenside Campus Redevelopment, Adelaide Australia

Sector: Mental Health
Client: South Australia Health
Role: Full Architectural Services
Value: AUD$130m
Status: On Site
Awards: Best International Future Health Project at the Design and Health International Academy Awards 2011 - Highly Commended

Medical Architecture are working in partnership with local firm, Swanbury Penglase Architects, to design a 129-bed health facility providing specialist services for mental health and drug and alcohol care on the existing Glenside Campus site in Adelaide. It will bring together acute, rehabilitation, drug & alcohol withdrawal and perinatal inpatient units and will provide a modern facility as a place of refuge, safety, security and healing in a de-stigmatised, sustainable, flexible and integrated design.

The concept is based on community integration. 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 to provide privacy and security for service users, fostering autonomy and supporting a recovery focused model of health care.

The Government of South Australia website

For an insight into Glenside’s history, click here