Award of Excellence For Civic Landscape

Bendigo Hospital Project — Oculus with Paul Thompson

Aboriginal Nation

Dja Dja Wurrung

Location

Bendigo, Victoria

Client

The Government of Victoria

JURY COMMENT

Bendigo Hospital delivers world-class healthcare facilities in a landscape designed around ideas of connection and kindness. The thirteen-hectare project includes a network of forty-six diverse landscapes, connected by streets and walkways that engage with the broader city, hospital and topography. The jury was won over by the consideration shown to the Indigenous community. The design team worked in partnership with the Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation to create employment opportunities and ensure the region’s cultural heritage was recognized through the co-design of an Aboriginal courtyard and garden. The project acknowledges the delicate regional ecology through rainwater harvesting and re-use, watersensitive urban design and significant increases in biodiversity, habitat and urban forest, while also delivering landscapes that provide relief, distraction, choice, support and recovery. Restorative and nurturing, Bendigo Hospital demonstrates the healing qualities landscape offers to patients, staff and visitors and sets a new benchmark for healthcare environments in Australia.

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Architect Silver Thomas Hanley with Bates Smart Facade engineer Inhabit Green roof Fytogreen Builder Lendlease Building surveyor PLP Building Surveyors and Consultants Services consultant Norman Disney and Young (NDY) Structural engineer Irwin Consult Irrigation design G & M Connellan Consultants Landscape contractor Ace Contractors Group Lighting NDY Light Services engineer NDY Signage and wayfinding ID/Lab Wind assessment MEL Consultants Photographer Cameron Macdonald (left), Kim Selby (right)