The winners of the national Reimagine Where We Live design ideas competition have now been announced.
The Reimagining Where We Live design ideas competition invited landscape architects and architects to use the draft National Aged Care Design Principles and Guidelines to design innovative aged care homes that are welcoming, safe, accessible and dementia friendly.
During the development of the competition, AILA advocated for the inclusion of a Registered Landscape Architect on each team and on the Jury. As a result, winning projects centre, and are built around, the landscape - a central aspect to best practice aged care design.
First place in the Urban Metro Category went to ‘Scales of care’ by LM2A with landscape architects Super Natural, a design that explored the relationship between care and the environment in which it takes place.
In the Regional Town category, first place went to ‘Manu Place’ by Monash Urban Lab with NMBW Architecture Studio, BoardGrove Architects, BLOXAS and Glas Landscape Architects, which featured central cloistered courtyards between private living spaces that featured natural light, air and greenery.
Congratulations to the winning and commended entrants across both categories.
Learn more about the winning entrants.
Image: 'Scales of care’ by LM2A with landscape architects Super Natural