Strategic Improvements Project
...making better places to live step by step
13 Aug 2014
The entry to this facility was a thoroughfare. Although the facility is located in the centre of a suburb, the entry did not provide comfortable places to sit and watch streetlife or wait for a friend. The carpark at the front of this residential aged care facility cre...
1 Aug 2014
This project involved a central garden that was a very signficiant part of the facility and a community room that was not strongly connected to the courtyard. Movement of staff and residents through the facility relied on pathways through the garden that gave life to...
24 Jul 2014
In this project, independent living units and residential aged care were colocated within a building. The building was disorienting as it comprised of a maze of convoluted corridors and dark unused communal rooms. At the centre of the building was a courtyard that cont...
15 Jul 2014
In this project a building that had once been a good place to live and work, had been compromised by a series of poorly-conceived renovations that closed in verandahs to create more space, but resulted in a convoluted and unpleaseant environment. The work to the buildi...
11 Jul 2014
This residential drug and alcohol recovery program was run out of an old building which comprised a maze of corridors and uninviting common rooms. The project aimed to open up corridors to create better vision around the buidling, clearer orientation and greater sense...
1 Jul 2014
This project involved work on an institutional building with a single large dining room/activity space with bedrooms stacked along corridors through the rest of the building. The aim was to create a separate area for day programs (that would also be open to visitors)...
24 Jun 2014
A fire in the building that housed this preschool caused the organisation operating the service to look for a temporary home during the rebuilding process. The preschool was set up in a church hall with limited shaded outdoor space. The photo above shows work that was...
Past Projects
The Process
Many of the 185,000 Australians in residential aged care, are housed in poor accommodation. A substantial body of research has established design requirements that can best support people with dementia, sensory impairment and other personal constraints common to aged care residents. Yet, few facilities provide effective support for the basic needs of residents let alone the more sophisticated social programs offered by innovative service providers. The Strategic Improvements Project provides a four step building renovation program. It ensure that even small amounts of funding can be directed to incrementally upgrade existing facilities, thereby improving the lives of residents. READ MORE
Constructive Dialogue Architects
Constructive Dialogue is an architecture firm focused on supporting aged care and other social programs through the provision of architectural, strategic planning and project management services. READ MORE