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07INTERVIEW | KRISTEN WHITTLEAn exemplar mental health facility

32SPOTLIGHT | DANISH HEALTHCAREHealing and Nature - the connection

29INTERVIEW | RONALD HICKSThe architectural art and science behind healthcare facilities

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F R O M T H E C E OIn our 10 years as Woodform Architectural, we have talked almost weekly about producing our own publication, but our gut instinct always told us to wait.

The Dandenong Hospital project inspired us in many ways – from helping us develop our branding (yes, we based our new branding on the architecture) to understanding how the architect actually managed to get the client over the line. But what resonated so deeply with us was how the architecture literally transformed a highly stressful environment into a place where the staff feel inspired and look forward to coming to work.

We now knew that this publication shouldn’t be just about us and our products; it should also focus on how architecture changes lives. Our clients are architects – we work with them all day, every day, and they do truly inspire us with their talent and determination to improve how we live.

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Dandenong Mental Health was a joint venture between Bates Smart and GroupGSA (formerly WMIA), who are specialists in health planning and mental health design.

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WOODFORM ARCHITECTURALWhat was the overall design intent for the Dandenong Mental Health project?

KRISTEN WHITTLEThe brief for the Dandenong Health Centre was to become an exemplar mental health facility, they came to Bates Smart because they wanted to set a precedent for this project. We had never done a mental health facility before, and so we joint ventured with GroupGSA (formerly WMIA) who carry specialist health planning skills in the mental health area. So we looked at timber and we wanted a long-lasting, durable and hard-wearing material as well, so we chose blackbutt, and subsequently looked at obtaining that from a sustainable source, and from recycled sources as well. That became our predominant palette. The good thing about the timber was that it could also blend in with the domestic character of the buildings around it, so it met the planning outcome of fitting this building into its domestic environment, making the people within the building feel good, and to extend architecture’s capacity to create environments that are good for people.

WOODFORM ARCHITECTURALHow is this project groundbreaking in terms of mental healthcare, and how important was the timber aspect in contributing to the success of this project? KRISTEN WHITTLEWe don’t know yet what the results are in terms of patient outcomes and staff retention. Staff retention in the healthcare world is an incredibly important issue, and as we build new healthcare facilities, creating environments that are good for staff and therefore enable them to service their patients in the best possible way is certainly a driver. In terms of the evidence, we will in due course get the results of how the architecture—the way it’s planned and the materiality of it—how it actually supports the concept we were driving. Everyone who has seen it so far—and all the feedback that I have been given—has supported the combination of this “house” idea with the way that it has been materialised through the use of timber. The feedback has been very positive, and that has also been reflected in the awards that the building has received: the shortlisting for the World Architecture Festival, the National Architecture Award, the Victorian Architecture Award that it won several months back and now the Timber Award. All of those things prove that it is working, but we are very keen to see the actual results.

WOODFORM ARCHITECTURAL Most architects dream about using such volumes of timber in a project. How did you manage to get the client over the line with this one, and what was your approach? KRISTEN WHITTLEBy the time that we were doing this project we were already headlong into the Royal Children’s Hospital and we’d gained a reputation for doing very well at converting architecture into a health setting. We’d gained the trust of the Department of Health for being an architectural firm that is able to convert architecture into the embodiment of a healthy environment, and they were reassured that we had the tools and the knowledge and skills to do that. So I think partly we were trusted and in part we certainly went through a rigorous process in choosing the material. The client didn’t automatically accept the material and we had to prove its long-term durability. The cost of it was actually to its benefit, and with a project of this calibre the timber cladding was a very cost-effective way of dealing with such a large-scale building. The argument that it was also enabling the seamless integration of such a facility in a very highly-visible and highly-sensitive neighbourhood also played a part in them accepting this option as the suitable way forward. Other factors that helped build our case were its replaceability and the fact that it naturally weathers, so there is less maintenance.

WOODFORM ARCHITECTURALWhat was the inspiration behind the project and how early on did you consider using timber? KRISTEN WHITTLETimber was there as an idea early on, but we were concerned about it because we thought that the Department of Health and Southern Health would be concerned that it would grey off, and that it would look “not new.” We were concerned that they would prefer a polished pre-cast concrete or Alucobond panels which are more able to retain their overall appearance. There was a concern that timber wasn’t going to be the natural answer for this politically, but the further we looked at it and the further we analysed the problem, the more it became evident that it was the answer. We were able to reach agreement through dialogue and a number of site visits, and we secured the support from (the project manager of the client group) who was a very big supporter of the scheme and our approach.

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Interview with Kristen Whittle | Design Director | Bates Smart

We sat down with Kristen Whittle to discuss the finer points around the new ground breaking mental health facility they designed in partnership with GroupGSA (formerly WMIA).


WOODFORM ARCHITECTURAL So you obviously took them to case studies and previous projects? KRISTEN WHITTLEYes, that’s right. They had to get some reassurance as to how it would look over time, the replaceability and the sourcing of the timber, and just had to feel their way into it because it was a step change for them to do such a project, knowing it was going to be a benchmark.

We wanted it to be a benchmark and now it is: the world of health is now super-interested in the facility and we have international visitors wanting to tour around the facility, including a Dutch architect who specifically wanted to see the building due to its use of timber.

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WOODFORM ARCHITECTURALA lot of architects are using timber in a manner where it can be quite boring in terms of just a square timber box, but you’ve taken it to the next level and used some really intricate detailing. What kind of part did this play in terms of breaking it up?

KRISTEN WHITTLEA key concern for the hospital was that the material – if used en masse – was going to be too monotonous. We weren’t overly concerned about that – but considering that was the critique we were receiving, and considering also that we wanted to break down the building into the appearance of houses – the detailing gives it a sense of intimacy, but it breaks the scale and makes it look like several houses sort of pushed together. We started to think about turning the timber panels to be perpendicular to the facade so that it got a more textured reading. Some of the boxes had the appearance of louvered boxes and others became flush boxes, and then we created a datum line that cut through the façade: one at bench height level (about 450 mm) and the other one at ceiling level (2.7 metres high), so that those datums controlled the way in which we did the fenestration and the windows across the project. There were fenceline datums as well, made out of timber, that defined the perimeter of the building.

The datums enabled us to also step change the cladding, so we used some wide panels and thin panels to create a reading that they were against, to de-scale the building – a more human scaling device for the project – and all of

WOODFORM ARCHITECTURALCould you say a little more about the use of wood in healthcare in general? KRISTEN WHITTLEThere’s a huge future for using timber for its natural curative properties. It’s soothing, it’s reassuring, it’s tactile and people relate to it just like they relate to having a garden. If you put someone into a concrete box and asked them how they were feeling – or measured how they were feeling – and then put them into a garden courtyard with timber, plants and trees you’d get a completely different response. We all know that, because we all experience that feeling and we’re all human because we come from the same DNA, so basically it’s proven as an irrefutable fact. It becomes the natural material for use in healthcare, and is now the go-to material for similar projects.

those things gave it a level of intricacy that you wouldn’t normally get. It wasn’t an industrial or institutional application of timber, it was very much what one would see from a high quality house. The window mullions, for instance, get widely spaced and then they cluster up in corners, and become a kind of window wall system that is half-timber, half-glass; eventually it becomes solid panels so that the use of timber is widespread in all applications that connect everything together, and the diversity comes through in the spacing of the timber. That’s why we used the timber on the fenceline as well, because we wanted to complete the essay, and then we put the landscape in between the fenceline and the building, so you have a landscape border where the view out is filtered and the people inside get the benefit of the landscape, because landscape – just like timber – is good for you to look at. It also meant that people looking from the outside-in felt like they were looking into a domestic enclosure and not a solid wall, so it was forgiving for those inside as well as the people outside.



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There was a concern that timber wasn’t going to be the natural answer for this politically, but the further we looked at it and the further we analysed the problem, the more it became evident that it was the answer.

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The good thing about the timber was that it could also blend in with the domestic character of the buildings around it, so it met the planning outcome of fitting this building into its domestic environment, making the people within the building feel good, and to extend architecture’s capacity to create environments that are good for people.

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Staff retention in the healthcare world is an incredibly important issue, and as we build new healthcare facilities, creating environments that are good for staff and therefore enable them to service their patients in the best possible way is certainly a driver.

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We wanted to break down the building into the appearance of houses — the detailing gives it a sense of intimacy, but it breaks the scale and makes it look like several houses pushed together.

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We started to think about turning the timber panels to be perpendicular to the facade so that it got a more textured reading.

Some of the boxes had the appearance of louvered boxes and others became flush boxes, and then we created a datum line that cut through the façade: one at bench height level (about 450 mm) and the other one at ceiling level (2.7 metres high), so that those datums controlled the way in which we did the fenestration and the windows across the project.

There were fenceline datums as well, made out of timber, that defined the perimeter of the building.

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L E V E L O F I N T R I C A C YThe datums enabled us to also step change the cladding, so we used some wide panels

and thin panels to create a reading that they were against, to de-scale the building — a

more human scaling device for the project — and all of those things gave it a level of

intricacy that you wouldn’t normally get. It wasn’t an industrial or institutional application

of timber, it was very much what one would see from a high quality house.

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If you put someone into a concrete

box and asked them how they

were feeling – or measured how

they were feeling – and then put

them into a garden courtyard with

timber, plants and trees you’d get

a completely different response.

We all know that, because we all

experience that feeling and we’re

all human because we come from

the same DNA, so basically it’s

proven as an irrefutable fact. It

becomes the natural material for

use in healthcare, and is now the

go-to material for similar projects.


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“At the end of the day, the staff are a lot happier. They feel so much more at ease.”

G R E A T A T M O S P H E R E

“The staff are very happy about being here - the morale in the building is quite high. I think the atmosphere of the building itself plays a big part in that. We have very little staff turnover, which is fantastic for a huge group of about sixty-five people. Very few people are walking out on us.”

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“I love the courtyard. So the courtyard affects all the patients by just the fact that it feels like they’re outside rather than inside. So that has really been successful.”

L I G H T & B R I G H T

“When we speak to clients about the possibility of coming here, we can talk to them about the fact that it is light and bright. A lot of the mental health environments are quite dark. They don’t have that same fresh feel to them when you walk in.”

W A R M E N V I R O N M E N T

“It’s warm, and comforting. It is a nice environment, it’s natural.”

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The Chris O’Brien Lifehouse in Sydney is a unique facility. It is an aspirational project — the realisation of the vision of the late Prof. Chris O’Brien, a leading specialist who personally experienced the condition he had committed his life to treating.

CHRIS O’BRIEN LIFEHOUSE Interior view of main atrium space – Brett Boardman

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THE ARCHITECTURAL ART AND SCIENCE BEHIND HEALTHCARE FACILITIES

Interview with Ronald Hicks | Principal and Head of Health + Research Sector | HDR | Rice Daubney

WOODFORM ARCHITECTURALWhat’s your background in architecture? Mainly, how did you specialise in healthcare?

RONALD HICKSI am originally from South Africa, and although not exclusively, I had done healthcare work before arriving in Australia. On settling here I initially worked on other project types before joining Daryl Jackson in the specialist healthcare practice STHDJ. I joined Rice Daubney about ten years ago as head of the Health and Research Sector. So health and science and technology have been my total focus over the last 15 or so years. I think it is an appropriately full-time commitment – it is certainly a specialised subset. It’s not a secret science or anything like that, but it is complex.

WOODFORM ARCHITECTURALWhat skill set do you bring to differing healthcare projects?

RONALD HICKSI’ve had exposure to a broad range of project types, scales and delivery models. I’ve been responsible for an interesting mix – from tiny regional clinics in the mountains of Swaziland to 170,000-square-metre acute care hospitals. As an architect, I have considerable experience in the technical side of what hospitals are about, but I’m never embarrassed to ask questions about the technologies that will occupy a space. I try to integrate the very complex set of drivers of what makes a hospital work with my personal architectural drivers. This often represents a significant challenge – there may be a complex mix of competing factors. But it is crucial to remain a committed architect at heart to better serve the users’ needs – a real patient centred approach.

I’m particularly interested in cancer-care buildings. I’ve been lucky enough to be involved in a number in recent times. They are a really relevant typology - there are not many of us who have not been touched by this illness in some way or other. These buildings bring out a different type of response in people and motivation in the design process. Recently I’ve been responsible for a really interesting project in the Middle East. It provides very specialised care for severely disabled kids. It’s been a unique project and there’s something special about working in that environment as well. It is rewarding that the project has had some recognition in winning the World Architecture Festival award for best future healthcare project for 2015.

WOODFORM ARCHITECTURALGoing back to how you are first and foremost an architect at heart – I suppose it’s about understanding people and programmes?

RONALD HICKSIf you are committed and approach them correctly with underlying architectural principles, and when you’re dealing with people in a compromised condition, the outcome can be meaningful. Hospitals shouldn’t focus on illness; they should focus on wellness. Physical wellbeing is a very serious matter. This requires a design approach which places the patient at the centre of the equation.

WOODFORM ARCHITECTURALWhere does Australia stand in terms of healthcare in general compared to the rest of the world?

RONALD HICKSAustralia stacks up very well. Recently our practice has been consolidated with HDR, a leading US-based specialist healthcare practice. I’ve been lucky enough to have been exposed to some excellent work around the world—there is no question that the standard of Australian healthcare facilities is very good. There are examples in Europe of superb pieces of architecture in the healthcare space. Australian architects are right up there, but because of our relatively small population, our exposure to highly specialised facilities may be less.

CHRIS O’BRIEN LIFEHOUSE Heritage fabric reflected in the pattern-fritted glazed facades


WOODFORM ARCHITECTURALWhat global projects have you worked on where you could say boundaries were pushed?

RONALD HICKSThe Chris O’Brien Lifehouse in Sydney is a unique facility. It is an aspirational project — the realisation of the vision of the late Prof. Chris O’Brien, a leading specialist who personally experienced the condition he had committed his life to treating. The curators of his vision took that responsibility very seriously, and that made the delivery of that project a very unique experience. It taught me a huge amount. I think the whole practice is proud of the product.

Also, the Sunshine Coast University Hospital PPP is unique, but obviously for very different reasons. It is a really significant project delivered in a very commercial and competitive environment. It brings a whole set of other challenges. A well-rounded architect is one who can extract positive things from tough experiences. No matter how many years of experience we have as architects, we must still be willing to soak up as much of the positive influences and dynamics we’re exposed to.

We’ve just done this project in Qatar, which was an incredibly stimulating experience. This project, the Al Maha Center for Children and Young Adults, for the Hamad Medical Corp., is quite unique. The building is located at Al Wakra, a charming old pearling and fishing settlement located on the edge of the desert about 30 minutes outside of the capital Doha. Our building – any building – is very much about context. This project has an extremely harsh environmental context. The design responds to this whilst facilitating a high degree of technical complexity combined with the emotional challenges of this type of healthcare. The facility provides long-term, residential care for severely disabled children and also has an important social role in providing care into the broader community. Our design response reflects the emotional commitment and excitement we felt as a team in having the privilege of working on it.

SUNSHINE COAST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL The HUB Entrance Render – SCUHSCUH project in a joint venture with Architectus.

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SCUH project in a joint venture with Architectus.

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WOODFORM ARCHITECTURALYour presentation during the World Architectural Festival was fascinating.

RONALD HICKSAl Maha tries to focus on context and non-clinical aesthetics, and I think that’s where as a product and finish, timber really comes into its own. There’s no doubt that the traditional, conservative approach to using timber in healthcare facilities has changed. People are much more open now to the use of this product. You may still be confronted by some clients about the use of timber, but I think the resistance is decreasing.

In 2016, hospitals represent an integrated design response. The successful hospital today is a synthesis of other building typologies – a bit like a hotel and an airport; there’s some retail; it’s a mixed environment – all set against the background of an optimal clinical facility. Often in the public spaces, that’s where timber comes into its own. The driver has to be: What is the product that I’m leaving? What kind of spaces have I created? Is the environment responsive? There’s been a lot of work done around evidence-based design outcomes in health. There is proven evidence of improved healthcare outcomes with better environments for patients – improved response to medication and treatments, reduced length of stay, and improved recovery. It’s about the created environment.

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An Efficient Principle

The design for the extension of Rigshospitalet – Copenhagen’s main hospital – builds on a simple yet efficient principle: its unique shape. A series of folded V-structures are tied together by a transversal thoroughfare. The V-structures give room to five atriums that function as pleasant recreational spaces for patients as well as orientation marks enabling easy way-finding. The central thoroughfare combined with a vertical distribution grid ensures optimal logistics. The V-structures ensure proximity between functions and units – thus minimising the walking distances and improving the working conditions for the hospital staff.

A Greener Hospital

The North Wing will open up to plenty of natural daylight and provide good views to the adjacent park. Through integration of sustainable and energy saving solutions and green elements outside and inside the aim is to create a greener hospital. This can help create a pleasant environment with healing benefits for patients and a positive physical setting for employees and visitors.

Adjusting to the City

In order to adjust to the surrounding cityscape the North Wing is scaled down from north-west to south-east. Hence, the building is higher towards the existing hospital and lower towards the classic residential blocks across the road. The façade in light natural stone material has self-shading features leading to energy savings. Visually it adjusts to the area’s existing buildings while still lending a modern expression to the new hospital.

The project also entails a masterplan for the area, a new hotel for patients and a multi-storey car park.

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ARCHITECT: Herzog & de Meuron, Basel Ltd in collobaration with Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects (konsortium)

Herzog & De Meuron in collaboration with Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects have won the competition for the new hospital in Nordsjælland.

In the evaluation report, they have weighted the following in the selection of the winning proposal:

Conclusion architecture: The proposal’s huge strength is the highly successful and completely fundamental fusion of architecture and function. The Hospital’s overall functional idea is also the architectural idea of the whole proposal.

It really is the patient’s hospital, at a very human scale, where closeness and security are paramount. It is an original idea, the opposite of monumental, and contextual

and in harmony with the landscape it will be built in.

Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects talked about the process and development of the unique proposal:

The title of the competition for the new hospital was exactly – “Setting New Standards”. The team has tried to live up to this and we are pleased that the developer (Region Hovedstaden) with the choice of our proposal shows, that this title was sincere. An ambitious competition program and a well-planned process of dialogue made it possible for our team to develop this unique proposal.

Herzog & De Meuron’s work has great influence around the world. We now have

a unique project that will not only have an impact in Denmark, but also internationally.

The collaboration with Herzog & De Meuron has been very inspiring for Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects. It has been a pleasure to work with Herzog & De Meuron - a collaboration that has been characterised by mutual respect. We have met a world architect, who has exhibited a tremendous will to ensure that the proposal for the new hospital meets all the criteria. It is therefore with great pleasure that Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects look forward to further collaboration with Herzog & De Meuron.

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ARCHITECT: Henning Larsen Architects, Friis & Moltke and Brunsgaard & Laursen

The 52,000-square-metre extension of Herlev Hospital in Denmark will comprise a new emergency department and maternity services centre, including a paediatrics unit and maternity ward, among others.

This competition-winning project – by architects Henning Larsen Architects, Friis & Moltke and Brunsgaard & Laursen and landscape architect SLA – consists of three circular buildings placed on rectangular bases, a downscaled contrast to the 120-metre-high rectangular geometry of the existing hospital.

A hospital structure is essentially an organisation of a large number of small spaces, which in this project are spatially contrasted by the outdoor environment. The recreational and healing effect of nature is well documented. At Herlev Hospital, lush courtyards, green roof gardens, and a large central green heart provide the new hospital with a life-affirming atmosphere.

The outdoor spaces of the hospital are designed to interact in a way that makes them appeal to all senses. Water is an important element and has been incorporated in the form of water particles, water surfaces, and simple pools of water. As many of the hospital users have a view of the outside environment through the

windows of the building, the landscape is designed as a number of “pictures” varying with the rhythm of the hospital and changing seasons.

”We know that nature has a healing and calming effect on humans,” says says Stig L. Andersson, Creative Director in SLA, the landscape architects behind the winning proposal. “In our proposal, the landscape thus plays a very central role – not only around but also in the middle of the buildings. Herlev Hospital will be a luxuriant, vibrant, and green hospital, where patients will not only feel better than they normally do at a hospital – they will also recover in a shorter time.”

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