The project is located in Tuanshi Village, Xiaonanhai Town, which belongs to Longyou County, the city of Quzhou. It faces Qujiang River on the south, with G60 Shanghai-Kunming Expressway on the north side, and the Xihuxian Road passing nearby. Across the road from the site is the Qujiang River, providing a wide view of scenery. The project’s site was originally an elementary school, and later located the factory of an enterprise, with buildings in poor condition. The surrounding area is mainly occupied by waterfront residences of the villagers, and in the front of the site, a memorial archway of chastity and filial piety, built in Qing Dynasty in year 1790, has been preserved.
The four-story Saltzer Health medical office building in Meridian, Idaho provides an array of specialty clinics, five-room outpatient surgery center, physical therapy, gastroenterology, endoscopy, urgent care, family medicine, and five-modality medical imaging center in an easily accessible, welcoming medical campus. The overall Saltzer Health design aesthetic was developed to support a different way of delivering health care services. From the ease of access and all-in-one campus to the efficient space layout and refreshing interior design, the ethos of care is wholly patient centered. The Saltzer Health campus will help fill the need for high-quality, state-of-the-art health care in the fast-growing areas of Meridian and Nampa, while their new urgent care clinics have opened in locations across the Treasure Valley.
Prof. Herrmanns: If you compare the competition drawings with the structural results, there are hardly any differences. What changes have there been?
In fact, it was mainly refinements and specifications. One change was the renouncement of the playability of the flat roof. There were of course good reasons against it. And at the beginning you don’t know exactly what the facade will look like in the end. After intensive studies, we decided on facing with clinker brick slips. Not least because the old building has a clinker brick facade.
The result of the Australis Development at Rossmoyne Waters by Hames Sharley was an intelligently designed communal space that heavily focused on being legible and easy to navigate. The design resulted in a centrally focused spine of activity and green encouraging a connection of spaces, both internally and externally. Succinctly, the proposed development makes a positive contribution to the streetscape and amenity of the locality, through the high-quality architectural design as well as redeveloping a currently underutilised site in a manner consistent with the overarching state and local planning framework. This development was the first stage of a wider master-planned development of the senior housing site in Rossmoyne.
The project is a renovation of an existing family support center for Home-SAFE Early Head Start, a division of Vista Del Mar Child & Family Services. The facility provides child care, counseling, and parent education for underserved children in the Los Angeles and Hollywood areas. The project utilized a $300,000 federal grant to modernize two adjoined buildings. The primary design challenge was to create one unified design aesthetic out of two vastly different architectural styles while staying within the very limited budget. The solution was to strip back the buildings to their purest forms and add a playful patterned screen that unites the two structures and provides protection and privacy to the enclosed outdoor playground area. In order to stretch the project funds, a perforated aluminum screen system was developed that makes use of the discarded material from the cut panels to further expand the pattern across the building. This zero-waste design uses the pieces cut away from the panels to compose an inverse pattern on the existing stucco walls.
The ‘Three Trees’ Early Learning Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, embraces a natural approach that focuses on providing children with experiences to learn from and grow within nature. The pedagogy of the centre focuses on “childcentered learning through play that embraces the great outdoors”, and this philosophy has been carried through in the architectural approach to the design of this Early Learning Centre.
The building is understood as a “pure box” in which health and sanitary services can be developed. The façades are made of prefaricated white concrete pieces that form a translucid skin for the building.
The construction of this healthcare center was postponed for some years until 2013, when the project had to be adapted, as initially it was designed to place other facilities of the Government of Catalonia. The program of the building is organized on four floors: two above ground level, that correspond to the main and more public program of the health care center, and two basement floors, the B-1 destined to technical premises and personnel use and the B-2 to parking. The new primary health care center has a total of 22 consultation rooms (one double), a multipurpose area with four care points and an area of continuous attention with 4 care boxes. There is also an area for offices, area for health education, storage and staffing area.
The rest of the site is considered as a landscaped area with a gentle slope towards the building without getting in touch, thus generating an English patio in order to ventilate the two basement floors naturally.
The name of the project has been „Sleeping Beauty“ ever since competition stage. Nomen est omen: The old, somewhat decrepit houses were kissed awake and transformed into an up to date nursery and day-care center. Even though the houses were classified as „worth preserving“, a demolition would principally have been permitted. However, the client’s space requirements appeared to work well with the existing structures. So why demolish something that could readily be adapted to meet the new needs?
The purpose of this facility is to provide a place to live for Aboriginal people with “end stage Renal Disease”- allowing them to stay close to their family and community while receiving Hemodialysis for 2.5-4.5 hours, 3 times a week. It is expected that most people will only live for about 3 years making this facility a type of palliative care facility- but without the formal medical spaces.
Prior to the establishment of this accommodation facility and the associated “Renal Chairs” in the nearby Hospital, people had the choice of moving to 2,500 km Perth – and thus being separated from their family and community or simply staying at their community and dying. Sadly, the trauma of being separated from their kin led many to choose the stay and die option.
Location: Lot 114 Forrest Road, Fitzroy Crossing WA 6765, Australia
Photography: Peter Bennetts
Architectural Team: Finn Pedersen, Adrian Iredale, Martyn Hook, Jordan Blagaich, Rebecca Angus, Nikki Ross, Jason Lenard, Rebecca Hawkett, Leo Showell, Craig Nener.
On the rolling landscape of a former farmer’s field, today enclosed by suburban development, a new care and recreation centre for the elderly takes form. The plan is articulated in such a way as to leave breathing space between the new building and the surrounding urban tissue, while realising the necessary programme for a community with a growing need for such facilities.
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