Darling Downs Health

To maximise the site assets the buildings forms organically reach out into the landscape sensitively located to minimise impact. The two pavilions are surrounded by densely planted woodland with a series of public and private gardens connected to the varying levels of the project. Viewed in section, the arrangement of the functions is simple; a double-storey form with an architectural expression of rhythmic columns reminiscent of the sites hoop pine avenues that visually connect the two floors of research and teaching from the community functions to the ground and entry below. Tucked under is the staff car park only visible from the hospital at the South-East corner at a point on the site where the buildings form is deliberately at its highest forming a relationship more appropriate to the vast scale of the hospital.