Bates Smart Journal/ 03: Social Infrastructure by Bates Smart Architects

SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE

JOURNAL/ Quality architecture is years in the making. Research, innovation, and creative development are often unseen until the unveiling of our finished buildings. Journal is the diary of Bates Smart, opening the doors to our culture, process and everyday innovation. Its role is to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and ignite an ongoing discourse between our people, our clients, our colleagues and the broader public. It is open to anyone who has an interest in architecture and how the discipline of design is shaping our cities. This document is a selection of projects that represent some of the practiceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current buildings and interiors projects. We invite you to join the conversation and visit Journal online at http://journal.batessmart.com

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Cornwell PHOTOGRAPHERS AND VISUALISERS

Peter Bennetts Tyrone Branigan Richard Glover John Gollings Shannon McGrath Trevor Mein This publication is printed using vegetable-based inks onto stock that is manufactured using elemental chlorine-free pulp sourced from plantation grown timbers. Both printer and paper manufacturer are accredited to ISO 14001, the internationally recognised standard for environmental management.

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The Royal Children’s Hospital Main Street concept sketch Cover: Façade detail

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National Centre for Synchrotron Science Clayton, Melbourne 10 THOUGHT FACILITY

Enterprise 1, Innovation Campus University of Wollongong Wollongong, NSW 16 RAPID RESPONSE

Dandenong Hospital Emergency Department Dandenong, Melbourne 20 MIND SPACE

Dandenong Hospital Mental Health Facilities Dandenong, Melbourne 24 A VERY SPECIAL PLACE

The Royal Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital Parkville, Melbourne 48 CHILD HEALTH DISCOVERIES

Murdoch Childrens Research Institute Parkville, Melbourne 50 HOME AWAY FROM HOME

Weemala Ryde, Sydney 52 CAMPUS COMMUNITY

Kensington Colleges Redevelopment University of New South Wales Kensington, Sydney 54 HEALTHY WORKPLACE

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School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering University of New South Wales Kensington, Sydney 57 FACULTY FUSION

The Sciences Precinct Masterplan The University of Sydney Camperdown, Sydney 58 OLD MEETS NEW

Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences The University of Melbourne Parkville, Melbourne

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“ We wanted visitors to be engaged with the mystery and wonder of science and the magical feeling of light.” —

Kristen Whittle Director Bates Smart

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SYNCHROTRON SCIENCE CLAYTON, MELBOURNE The National Centre for Synchrotron Science (NCSS) is a spectacular building that celebrates the science of light through the art of architecture. The visually alluring new visitor centre takes its cue from the Australian Synchrotron’s international role as a sophisticated, high technology research facility using light as a medium. Providing a gateway and new public face for the campus the contemporary, innovative and intelligent architecture for the Centre is a confident symbol and celebration of the Synchrotron’s ground-breaking work. The world-renowned research produced by the facility is achieved through the creation and transmission of ‘high brilliance’ light. The innovations achieved through the research include improved treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and cancer. Light is the fundamental basis for the Australian Synchrotron’s scientific activity and so light, both natural and artificial, is the inspiration for the architecture. PICTURED

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THE LIGHT BOX The central expression of the building flows from the lecture theatre’s jewel-like appearance. Striated and filmed translucent, acrylic panels, infuse the gallery space with a polychromatic ethereal light. Plastic lenses inserted into skylights are positioned around the perimeter of the theatre, pushing natural light down and through the wall cavity to form a stunningly radiant built presence of high brilliance. The resulting shimmering quality makes the constant movements of light visible. This treatment references the Synchrotron’s dynamic manipulation of light and minimises the gallery’s use of artificial light during the day. We used a similar strategy for the double skin external cladding. Long span polycarbonate panels were custom coated in a dichroic finish creating the building’s evocative gateway presence at night. The harnessing of natural light, the large installation of rooftop solar panels and the highly insulated building fulfill the project’s strong commitment to sustainability. The large foyer/gallery space on the ground floor doubles as an event space and extends to encircle the lecture theatre – a further reference to the Synchrotron’s endless circular motion.

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Another design device deployed to express the nature of light in the Synchrotron is a play on the traditional dark lecture theatre. A vast array of halo-shaped fluorescent lights punctuate the felt-lined ceiling to demonstrate the power of light as the sole experience in the calm soft grey aesthetic of the lecture theatre.

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1. Entrance 2. Gallery 3. Theatre 4. Classrooms 5. CafĂŠ

A new Australian Synchrotron administrative hub is located on the upper level away from public activity and functions.

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National Centre for Synchrotron Science Gallery space encircling the lecture theatre Opposite page: Lecture theatre Lecture theatre ceiling detail Next page: Lecture theatre

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ENTERPRISE 1

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Nurturing collaboration between business and academic research communities

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“Large vertical cedar shading devices track the sun over the course of the day to reduce energy consumption levels.” —

GUY LAKE Director Bates Smart

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CROSS SECTION

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Enterprise 1 East faรงade Previous page: East faรงade

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“Bates Smart completely grasped the brief – they delivered an innovative design that complements the campus environment and provides a high quality internal character which attracted a number of key iC foundation tenants.” —

Gary Hudson iC Project Manager University of Wollongong

ENTERPRISE 1 INNOVATION CAMPUS UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG, NEW SOUTH WALES Enterprise 1 is a regional campus workplace, designed to nurture collaboration and the exchange of ideas between business and academic research communities. 2012 AIA NSW 2012 Commercial Architecture Commendation, Jury Citation: “As with many campus style commercial office and research developments in the open landscape of suburban or regional locations, the construction of context and typological response is necessary to establish a differentiated place that gives identity and amenity to the place of work. Enterprise 1, while situated within the University of Wollongong Innovation Campus on the bushland plains behind the Illawarra coastline, is such a condition. The workplace established at Enterprise 1 is comprised of two linear floorplates separated by an atrium which doubles as an internal street at ground level. Within its context, it has attempted to draw activity from the multiple and separate building tenants, to promote maximum interaction and collegiality between them, and to focus that into the public domain that bisects the buildings.

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The building demonstrates a very well detailed but conventional façade along its longer north and south faces to allow great environmental response and expression to the narrower east and west façades. Operable vertical timber louvres, that track the passage of the sun, screen these façades and provide the emblematic presentation of the building. The spatial configuration is well executed and the environmental amenity and performance suitable. It marks Innovation Campus with its own standard of architecture and sustainability.” Jury: Andrew Cortese (Chair) Grimshaw; Matthew Bennett, Bennett and Trimble; Peter Poulet, NSW Government Architect.

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Enterprise 1 Atrium stair Meeting space overlooking atrium Opposite page: Internal street

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DANDENONG HOSPITAL EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

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Planning an environment that eases the tension

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“The new ED provides a larger, lighter, and more open environment, making the trip to emergency less traumatic for all.” —

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DANDENONG HOSPITAL EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT DANDENONG, MELBOURNE The new Dandenong Emergency Department is designed to achieve a reassuring sense of calm and an abundance of natural light. Sheltered by a welcoming canopy, the front entrance is defined by a screen of glass-reinforced concrete fins; providing enclosure and transparency while creating a dynamic shading pattern across the façade. Landscaped courtyards connect the new building to the existing hospital, bringing nature and daylight to the centre of the plan. Continuing this theme, we used large windows in treatment spaces wherever possible. Highlight windows ‘borrow’ light for inboard rooms, and solid walls are separated from the ceiling by a ribbon of glass, creating a sense of openness and calm. The main waiting space features organic seating clusters and light-responsive artwork suspended from the ceiling. This work is richly coloured and evokes natural botanical forms.

The Emergency Department is a busy hub on the campus, attending to a broad patient group, with strong ambulatory and community links. The clinical planning was shaped by a new model of care, creating defined patient streams and distinct treatment zones organised around care requirements, including: high acute, isolation, paediatric, mental health, aged care, fast track, and short-stay patients. The design delivers a contemporary healing environment suffused with natural light and offering a reassuring, uplifting sense of calm. PICTURED

Dandenong Hospital Emergency Department Main waiting space Opposite page: Treatment space Main waiting space Previous page: Entrance

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DANDENONG HOSPITAL MENTAL HEALTH FACILITIES

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Building a more natural place for mental health

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DANDENONG HOSPITAL MENTAL HEALTH FACILITIES DANDENONG, MELBOURNE

The Dandenong Mental Health project is one of the largest mental health facilities in Victoria, consolidating all residential, research, training, and administration activities in a new complex co-located with an acute hospital. The site is a neighbourhood of single-family housing, and low rise education buildings. The architectural design builds on the local residential language using pitched roof forms and timber construction. The design responds to the scale, colours and textures of the suburban context, while maintaining a clear link to its public function. To create an appropriate human scale we grouped the living, dining, staff and support spaces, and 120 single bedrooms into 38 pavilions, arranged around 16 landscaped courtyards.

The clustered pavilions create residential units for juvenile, adult, aged and extended care patients. All bedrooms are single occupancy with an ensuite, desk and a large window with views into the neighbourhood. The reassuring normality of this arrangement is designed to provide therapeutic benefits. Staff stations have clear lines of sight to lounge and dining areas, courtyards and corridors, allowing supervision and observation without unnecessary intervention. Strategically placed security doors provide flexible boundaries for units to vary in size and share spaces. Collaborating with our client, we challenged the traditional radiating and linear bedroom arrangements of mental health facilities. We have created a noninstitutional design solution based on well-crafted, human-scaled spaces with direct access to landscape and nature. As with the new Royal Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital, we find that patients and their families welcome the healing effects of light, landscape and natural materials.

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Dandenong Hospital Mental Health Facilities Courtyard and corridor with bench seating Patient bedroom Opposite page: Courtyard Previous page: Exterior

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The pavilions are framed and clad in vertical blackbutt timber slats. Timber was selected to provide warmth, texture, patterning, tactility and a non-institutional feel. The timber is durable, low maintenance, and will age gracefully. The pavilions also form a courtyard, avoiding the need to construct high institutional security walls. Each courtyard is individually designed using furniture, paving and plant selection, and is either passive (non accessible) or active (accessible). The courtyards provide staff and patients with natural daylight and landscape views from most parts of the building. The courtyards are the focal point of the lounge and dining spaces, blurring the boundaries between interior and exterior, and providing a threshold experience with an integrated recycled timber, bench seat window frame.

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ADULT ACUTE UNIT FLOOR PLAN

1. Entry 2. Bedrooms 3. Courtyard 4. Lounge/dining

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“When designing this building we had to balance providing a safe and secure environment for patients and staff, with spaces that make people feel comfortable about themselves.” —

Brian Stevenson Director Southern Health Capital and Infrastructure

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THE ROYAL CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL

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Embracing the best in nature

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“Located on the edge of Royal Park, the building’s design embodies both a physical and spiritual connection to nature.” —

MELBOURNE PRIZE JURY 2012 AIA Victorian Architecture Awards

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The Royal Children’s Hospital View from Flemington Road Concept images Previous page: West façade detail

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THE ROYAL CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL PARKVILLE, MELBOURNE Hospital design is now at the frontier of architecture’s most fundamental purpose – placing the mental and physical needs of people at the forefront of design practice. This human-centred approach to design is a response to the intrinsic connection between nature and well-being. The design of the new Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) extends this philosophy through an intimate engagement with the parkland setting of Royal Park, Melbourne. The masterplanning concept centres on a ‘park in the building’ strategy which brings the positive revitalising energy of parkland experience into all corners of the project. The building is broken down in scale to fit into its park setting and to feel less intimidating to children.

The campus style development combines large volumes of workplace, education, and research spaces all hardwired and interconnected around a fully functioning paediatric clinical hospital and unified by a six storey communal atrium space called ‘Main Street’. The project contains many environmentally sustainable features including grey and black water recycling, roof top solar panels, and a naturally cooled atrium space. The building and the environment it seeks to create, has been directly influenced by the natural textures, layers, forms and colours of the surrounding Royal Park. A unique aesthetic language from the parkland formed the material expression of the building; attempting to demonstrate how built space infused with nature can directly benefit human comfort and restoration.

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MASTERPLAN

1. West Building: – Retail – Education – Day Medical – Research

2. Main Street 3. North Building: – Inpatient Unit – Family Resource 4. East Building: – Emergency Department and Medical Imaging – Ambulatory Care – Allied Health – Administration – Surgery and Interventional Suite – Research

5. South Building: – Research – Hotel – Retail 6. Childcare courtyard 7. Great Garden Court and Playground 8. Magic garden 9. Reflective garden 10. East courtyard 11. A mbulatory care courtyard 12. Meerkat enclosure 13. T herapy Garden 14. R oof Garden

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The Royal Children’s Hospital Aerial view

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NORTH BUILDING The inpatient unit (IPU) is accommodated in a low rise purpose-designed building, fluidly sculpted by the interior functional planning, and blending deep into the calm tranquillity of the surrounding landscape. Separated from the main hospital to maximise views of the park the IPU is connected at every level to realise key adjacencies. The planning of the IPU department is regular by its very nature. In order to camouflage this regularity and to help blend the building into the park setting, a pattern was created using combined precast and glazed stepped faรงade elements in a variety of colours and textures. Precast faรงade modules were designed to create stepped and coloured patterns that reference eucalypt bark. The calm horizontal expression and rhythm complements the curves of the building. A combination of glazed faรงade elements including windows, sun shading and applied glass were designed in a variety of foliage colours that relate to the surrounding tree canopy.

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The reflective glazed sunshades provide those inside the IPU a greater view of the outside and literally help bring the park into the building.

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The Royal Children’s Hospital IPU façade IPU concept sketches IPU sunshade detail Opposite page: IPU exterior

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WEST BUILDING The main feature of the building is the sweep of coloured ‘leaf’ blades along Flemington Road. Fabricated in curved panels, they provide protection from the sun whilst creating a shimmering organic structure and visual identity. The resultant memorable, powerful expression is designed to be seen from afar as the new symbol of the RCH. The scheme, visually reminiscent of the character of leaves adorning a tree, covers the entire west façade of the Hospital. The colours of each of the 1300 glass blades were drawn from the photographic study of the park and are clustered together in diagonal bands to help denote the Hospital’s emergency zone and main entry statements. Each panel has been designed utilising a series of stratified effects of coloured, patterned, mirrored and acid-etched glazed finishes, making them individual in character and more natural in appearance.

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The coloured blades fold into the underside of the porte cochere where they are suspended like a tree canopy over people entering the building. The positioning of the blades here is valued for aesthetic and emotional reasons, celebrating and defining the entrance, intuitively drawing in the visitor, and making the journey memorable and inviting.

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The Royal Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital West faĂ§ade West faĂ§ade detail Opposite page: Porte cochere entrance Entrance concept sketch

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MAIN STREET Buildings that are easy to navigate, with abundant natural light and a logical or sequential layout, make the healthiest buildings. In order to help people find their way about the Hospital, the RCH features ‘Main Street’, a 16 metre wide major thoroughfare that transports people between the campus-style buildings, and offers local landmarks or meeting points and more intimate gathering places. These key focal points were identified early on in the design process as a means to manage the scale and volume of the public space; dividing it up to make the overall experience calming, interesting, stimulating and less overwhelming. Brought together with a spectacular two-storey aquarium, large-scale artworks, a Melbourne Zoo installation and contributions from Scienceworks Museum, the Hospital engages the imagination and makes the interior an uplifting and memorable space complementing the natural parkland setting. ‘Creature’, at 14 metres high and weighing eight tonnes, is a joyous muddle of organic shapes and colours. The sculpture by Melbourne artist Alexander Knox is the centrepiece of the Street. Like a huge flowering tree in a courtyard, it is situated at the junction of the busy Ambulatory Care department and acts as a landmark or meeting place.

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The Royal Children’s Hospital Main Street detail Main Street Main Street seating Main Street concept sketch Opposite page: ‘Creature’

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The Royal Children’s Hospital Waiting area Waiting area with view to children’s play area Meerkat enclosure Ambulatory Care Neighbourhood axonometric diagram

AMBULATORY CARE Signalled by ‘Creature’ directly off ‘Main Street’, the RCH Ambulatory Care Neighbourhood provides a range of specialty consulting and diagnostic clinics; receiving over 230,000 visits per year. The design of the large Ambulatory Care Neighbourhood invites the park into the building via three courtyards. The first courtyard is a calm viewing light-well, the second a rolling landscaped children’s play area, and the third a Meerkat enclosure, providing hours of captivating entertainment for waiting families and light relief for staff. The Neighbourhood’s six specialty pods, and their associated reception and waiting areas, radiate around the collection of courtyards and provide a central focus on nature, daylight and distraction. Using a balance of standard and specialised room design, the pods can flex to allow clinic expansion and contraction. The Ambulatory Care Neighbourhood was one of the most complex and challenging areas of the Hospital, incorporating cardiology, audiology, ophthalmology, immunology, respiratory medicine and surgery pre-admission. The Ambulatory Care Neighbourhood demonstrates the integration of health planning, architecture, interior design and landscape design in creating a highly efficient and welcoming precinct focused on children and their families.

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INPATIENT UNIT The inpatient building nestles into the gentle rise of Royal Park, elongating the façade, and allowing an intimate multi-level connection with nature. More than 80 per cent of rooms have park views while the others look into generous courtyards. The design is strongly shaped by the model of care, with strict daylight and view targets, and patient clustering, ensuring that no patient is hidden from view. Generous parent and family spaces allow families to maintain their home-like routines. The uplifting and harmonious interior design inspires confidence and trust, and promotes ‘wellness’. The interiors team developed a special palette complemented by Jane Reiseger’s engaging graphics which depict landscapes and animals from around Victoria and contribute to a ‘fun for kids’ environment. The inpatient bedrooms have designated staff, patient and parent zones. A majority of the rooms are single occupancy, designed to be calm and comforting as a place of recovery and respite. Medical procedures are conducted away from the bedroom whenever possible, leaving this space to be a haven for children and their families to be together.

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The Royal Children’s Hospital Inpatient staff base Inpatient staff base concept sketch IPU reception and corridor Opposite page: Inpatient bedroom Inpatient bedroom concept sketch Inpatient bedroom desk IPU breakout area Next page: Ella Latham Auditorium

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EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT An Emergency Department is an environment with high levels of activity and emotion, involving multidisciplinary diagnostics and complex decision making. It is also one of the ‘front doors’ of the Hospital. From here, one-third of the patients are admitted to the inpatient unit. The quality of the arrival and waiting experience, as well as the efficient operational performance of the department are the key requirements. Emergency Departments (ED) and Medical Imaging (MI) are functionally intertwined. Patient flows and efficiency have a profound effect on the operation of the whole Hospital. The design must be highly efficient, flexible and functionally well resolved. Zoning, amenity, safety and proximity must be reconciled with the need for respite, privacy, and a calming environment. Following an international study tour and review of benchmark facilities, clients and designers joined in an exploratory and creative design process, developing an innovative design response around the new model of care for both departments. The design gave a great deal of attention to waiting areas, triage processes, sightlines, patient streaming, visual distraction, colour, materials and graphics in order to create a new benchmark facility. Emergency and Medical Imaging departments are often found in deep-plan spaces with little or no daylight or connection with nature. At RCH, the departments are planned around two key design elements, the aquarium in Emergency and the lightwell in Medical Imaging. Two separate waiting areas are clustered around the aquarium, and the imaging procedure bays, staff lounge and main corridor, surround the lightwell. The aquarium has become an RCH icon, a friendly and fascinating natural landmark which people discover at the entry in Main Street and in Emergency below. This is both a link and a landmark between the two busy ‘front doors’ of the Hospital.

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The Royal Children’s Hospital Emergency Department triage bay Emergency Department treatment bay Emergency Department waiting area Lower Ground wayfinding graphics: “underwater” Opposite page: Aquarium Emergency Department waiting area

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“From the scale of the city to the bedside, The Royal Children’s Hospital has been designed to assist children and their families through a process of healing.” —

PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE JURY 2012 AIA Victorian Architecture Awards

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The Royal Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital Treatment bay Dental clinic Gait laboratory Opposite page: Neonatal intensive care unit Level 5 wayfinding graphics: "sky"

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The Royal Children’s Hospital Operating theatre Hybrid theatre/ Cath Lab Opposite page: Intraoperative Medical Resonance Imaging Scanner (IMRIS) Level 3 wayfinding graphics: “treetops"

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“Infusing nature with interior design has created an enriched and restorative environment for children, families and staff.” —

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MURDOCH CHILDRENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE PARKVILLE, MELBOURNE As one of the largest paediatric research institutes in Australia, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) is recognised globally for its discoveries and innovations in child health. MCRI’s co-location with partners RCH and the University of Melbourne allow the partner to capitalise on a unique ‘bench to bedside’ opportunity, enabling the swift translation of research discoveries into practical treatments for children. This requires a high degree of formal and informal interaction across the disciplines of laboratory, clinical and public health research. Visual and social connectivity is facilitated by the careful placement of circulation routes and break-out areas. The use of glazing to extend sightlines, whilst avoiding visual clutter, allows researchers to maintain a direct line of sight from their laboratory working zone to their team write-up areas.

Daylight penetration and access to views is maximised by placing open plan workstations and laboratories near the external façade, while technical, storage and support spaces are clustered in the centre of the floor plate. This configuration allows for a more flexible working environment through clustering support rooms to allow them to be shared more easily. Flexibility is essential in this dynamic research and technological space, so our modular laboratory and workstation approach allows for the future conversion of wet laboratory into dry research space. Flexibility in laboratory floor layouts and bench design can easily accommodate research, equipment and development programme changes. To complement the lively, collaborative, workplace theme, vibrant colour contrasts with crisp functional white across the two MCRI levels. Colour is also used to distinguish the various laboratory components within MCRI.

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Murdoch Childrens Research Institute Laboratories

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Weemala Ryde, Sydney Weemala is a high dependency patient care facility consisting of two residential buildings located in Ryde, Sydney within the grounds of the Royal Rehabilitation Centre. This project addresses a short fall in transitional accommodation between hospital and home for patients requiring rehabilitation and support. The buildings contain a total of 32 beds with a mix of one, two and four bedroom apartments, all of which are fully wheelchair accessible. One building houses ‘independent living’ apartments which include kitchens and art rooms for the more self-sufficient residents; while the second building houses residents with high support needs. The overall design focused on maximising natural light and views to the surrounding landscape. Warm natural interior finishes provide a calm and residential ambience which encourages residents to personalise their space.

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Kensington Colleges Redevelopment University of New South Wales Kensington, Sydney The project involves the redevelopment of the three existing Kensington Colleges, the addition of two new buildings and University teaching space. Won in a competitive design tender with Richard Crookes Constructions, when completed it will provide accommodation for over 900 students at the University of New South Wales.

The east-west orientation of the rooms maximises sunlight. At the north and south ends of each college are recreation areas, communal study rooms and tutor’s studios that open onto generous balconies with views of the city and Randwick Racecourse to the north and the University grounds to the south. Each college is designed to have its own identity while collectively reading as part of the Kensington Colleges whole. Building façades reinforce the relationship of individuality and unity through a consistency of materials combined with subtle modulations of form, colour and expression.

The Colleges are arranged around a central courtyard with each having a public address to either High Street or the Basser Steps. Each college is defined by a primary linear building form of five and eight storeys that step up the site’s steep topography. The primary buildings are connected by low-rise transverse elements, which frame the courtyard. The landscaped areas will be bathed in sunlight. The terraced ground plane is activated by retail, University teaching space, college common areas and open space.

The landscaped courtyard is framed by facetted walls of glazed brickwork which present a playful expression of colour, texture, dappled light and shade. The facetted façade is a direct expression of the diversity of study rooms within the Colleges while the variation in colour between colleges reinforces their individual identity.

Student accommodation is arranged in single floor cohorts of 30-40 rooms, each with support of a resident tutor. Student support is further encouraged by mixing rooms for senior and junior students in smaller clusters of 4-6, many with shared balconies.

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“Bates Smart completely embraced our brief and went above and beyond to consider the idiosyncratic aspects of our project.” — Isabelle Creagh Director UNSW Residential Communities

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Designing for social infrastructure projects

— Bates Smart has a long history of social infrastructure projects. We have delivered significant new health, education and research facilities which contribute to our community and culture. Our unique approach to this sector is the application of our experience in residential, workplace and hospitality to achieve innovative healthcare and research environments.

Some of our projects are large and complex, while others are small and specialised. We create project briefs, feasibility studies and contribute to business case development. We design new buildings, redevelopments, precinct plans and masterplans. All our work reflects an understanding of evidence based design and a focus on healthy buildings.

Over the past 10 years our health portfolio has developed in strength and depth through the work of Director Sheree Proposch, collaborating with her colleagues in Melbourne and Sydney. As a recognised leader in health planning, and with a range of Australian and international experience, Sheree understands the value of teamwork to deliver the best outcome for our clients.

Health, like all social infrastructure projects, requires significant consultation throughout the project. We place a strong emphasis on bringing daylight and aspect to nature into staff and patient spaces, and colour and art into health environments. We develop an innovative and creative response to the brief, and implement these solutions with meticulous attention to detail to achieve a healthy sense of place.

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“We look for a more ‘human’ way of responding to design challenges through architecture.” —

Sheree Proposch Director Bates Smart

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Integrating a learning community

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School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales KENSINGTON, SYDNEY The University of New South Wales School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering is located in three buildings that were purpose built in the 1950’s. Their refurbishment offered the opportunity to create a more collaborative environment for students and staff. Two of the original buildings will be retained and extensively refurbished, while the third will be replaced with a new teaching wing incorporating flexible learning spaces. A major new lecture theatre facing the courtyard and a cafe on the mall will activate the ground floor. Large glazed operable doors along Willis Lane will open the laboratories and create ground floor activation. The refurbishment and extension will reconfigure the building creating an activated central spine of circulation and informal student learning spaces previously missing from the building. Large flexible computer laboratories, teaching spaces, and collaborative staff areas allow academics and post graduate research students to interact while providing shared access to natural light. The new addition will have a confident modern expression that interprets the design principles of the original buildings.

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The science of collaboration

— THE SCIENCES PRECINCT MASTERPLAN THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY CAMPERDOWN, SYDNEY Bates Smart won the role of briefing and masterplanning of the University of Sydney, for their new science precinct encompassing: the Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery and the School of Physics/Nanoscience. The aim was to locate a new Nanoscience Building utilising new design principles applied to the overall masterplan. The precinct design includes a new street through the site linking the existing and new facilities. Historic axial alignments and views throughout the campus are retained, while a major new precinct provides an active extension. A north facing courtyard framed by the existing Physics Faculty and the new Nanoscience Building forms the social heart of the faculty. The courtyard will have both open green and sheltered outdoor space; activated by two lecture theatres and a cafe creating a student hub, previously absent from the faculty. The design encourages interdisciplinary collaboration and cross fertilisation by focusing student activity on the streetscape, with offices above. The resulting scheme assisted The University of Sydney in obtaining funding for the new Nanoscience Facility.

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The Sciences Precinct Masterplan Internal learning common Internal learning common Masterplan of site showing connection between faculties

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GRADUATE SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

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GRADUATE SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, FACULTY OF ARTS THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE Many aspects of life are changing with the rapid advance of technology. Information technology influences the way we interact, communicate, collaborate, and learn. The objective of the new Graduate School is to enable cross-faculty and inter-faculty collaboration; providing contemporary learning and teaching environments within a heritage building. The outcome is a fundamental improvement in post graduate education providing new facilities that have changed the way students learn. A visually coherent language responds to the variety of functional needs of post graduate students and a clearly defined model of tertiary education. The new environment with subtle influences of hospitality and residential design creates spaces that not only perform, but also feel good.

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Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences Social and informal learning space Graduate lounge and informal learning Large lecture theatre Opposite page: Casual seminar room Previous page: Social and informal learning space

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CREDITS DESIGN

Cornwell PHOTOGRAPHERS AND VISUALISERS

BATES SMART Architecture Interior Design Urban Design Strategy Since 1853, Bates Smart has been at the forefront of practice in Australia, delivering projects around the world from their studios in Melbourne and Sydney. Bates Smart has an unparalleled reputation for the design and delivery of architecture, interior design and urban design projects. Specialising in commercial, residential, hospitality and social infrastructure sectors, Bates Smart has specific skills in dealing with large and complex projects. Our reputation for design excellence is founded on a disciplined intellectual base. We develop a thorough understanding of the design opportunities offered by each individual project, and we create design solutions which speak directly to the challenge. Almost uniquely, we address all design issues simultaneously through collaborative teams of architects and interior designers working in concert. From urban and faรงade design to perfecting finegrain interior details, Bates Smart crafts seamless holistic solutions. We pay special attention to the environmental performance and long-term durability of our buildings. We harness proven sustainable principles and technologies in order to create buildings that stand the test of time. Our talented team is constantly developing its capacity to produce outstanding results around the world. We invest in the latest tools for global teamwork, and maintain an expanding network of collaborators whose special skills complement our own.

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