The original building floor plans had many blind corners and dead ends which have resulted in conflicts between staff and clients. The new layout utilizes passive surveillance principles and uses straight corridors for intuitive wayfinding and safety.
This project involves the refurbishment of 1000sqm of internal area, a third of the existing building, which continued to provide healthcare services during construction. The existing building is the old Mordialloc Hospital, a complex 1950’s structure which has been retrospectively added to over the years. The refurbishment works opens up the floor plan and consolidates circulation spaces to overcome the original “rabbit warren” layout. The new spaces offer:
Post Covid-19, CBCHS have dramatically increased their annual cleaning budget due to the materials and detailing of the original building. The new spaces have been designed to minimize cleaning and cost through the selection of easily maintained surfaces and seamless detailing like coved skirtings and splash backs.