Campbelltown hospital
Campbelltown hospital
Arcadia has developed a landscape masterplan for the $632 million Campbelltown Hospital redevelopment working in collaboration with BLP. Stage 2 of the Campbelltown Hospital includes a state of the art clinical building, with Arcadia providing concept designs for the entry, new carparks, ground floor courtyard, including play and food and beverage elements, outdoor spaces targeted to mental health patients and upper level terraces for use by all patients and visitors to the hospital.
The landscape approach for the Campbelltown Hospital Master Plan considers the built form at a macro and micro level, from the functional requirements of a health based campus and the user experience of individual landscape spaces. Each layer and consideration will be interrelated and principles addressed at all scales. These broad level considerations relate to movement, water, vegetation and land form. Holistically they will form the landscape system of the new building and wider hospital campus.
Core to the organisation of the master plan is the establishment of the Hospital Street running north-south through the precinct, acting as a conduit between the residential zone to the south and the commercial core of Campbelltown to the north of the site. The street is both an indoor and outdoor space and blurs the line between landscape and architecture. It connects a number of larger landscape spaces and buildings allowing people to experience different areas with each visit.
As a key driver for the project, the landscape draws heavily on principles of restoration and environment – in relation to its potential for providing respite and healing for the users of the site and also the remediation of the hospital land itself. A WSUD strategy is to be implemented to promote water health within the site and minimise impact on surrounding areas. Utilising existing and proposed roads and carpark surfaces for water sensitive urban design elements, the site will be able to capture and treat water run off, reuse water for irrigation, minimise impact of altered overland flow paths on the built form and landscape and utilise landscape features for water treatment and detention. The landscape will be designed to minimise impact of urban heat island effect and promote biodiversity through use of endemic and native vegetation.
The user experience is fundamental to the design of the landscape. The experience has been considered as a person moving through the space as well as spaces viewed upon from surrounding hospital rooms. Where possible, views lines are terminated by landscape elements. Landscape features (paving, planting) are continued into internal spaces and internal spaces push into landscape to blur the line between built and natural. It is envisaged that landscape will be visible from all locations on the site and that the user should feel closer to nature than the city.
Open space will be designed to respond to their context and micro-climate conditions. Spaces will include a series of enclosed courtyards provide moments of relief for a densely developed built footprint. An enclosed walkway will link the campus from north to south, pediatric play areas and mental health have been designed to meet the specific needs of the end users, while plazas and gardens provide opportunities for activities and gathering, especially at site and building entries. Food and beverage nodes throughout will give amenity and respite.
The resulting place will be an integrated and comfortable landscape that inherently belongs to its context in Campbelltown.
