Every-ware and Know-ware

Alexandra Waldron-Clark

Supervisor: Simon Drysale

Winner of the Peter Corrigan Medal

If time suddenly stopped, what would our model of care look like? Would we question our values as we see people isolated in rooms, separated, alone, void of community, and celebration? Care is not a one-size fits all solution. This is a proposal that tackles real issues within our current healthcare settings and what we deem acceptable solutions for care typologies, investigating how a new architecture typology can transform the way we view care.

Sited in East Gippsland, one of Victoria's highest per capita populations of ageing people, with almost 40 per cent of the population being over 60 years in 2020, this project focuses on the town of Orbost, a timber town, located off the Princes highway on the snowy river plains. The project’s condition of service is introduced at The Golden Fleece Service Station, an icon on the road; the glow of service station inviting, a welcome to town. Combining age friendly care services and emergency youth care in a drive in and drive out typology, this is a future-present design. The highway entrance to town imbeds wellness and health into communities; rather than a new McDonalds, healthcare becomes a catalyst to bring together the community.

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