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ONE LOOK AT Lady Cilento Children's Hospital in
Brisbane, Australia, and it's clear that something
different is afoot.
Its brightly colored fins, stacked buildings, and
balconies jutting out at different angles look less like
a hospital and more like an art museum or community center-and that's exactly the point. "They were
spending more than a billion dollars and they didn't
want it to feel like a hospital," says architect Bruce
Wolfe, the managing director at Conrad Gargett
(Brisbane, Australia).
Instead, the focus was on creating a healing
environment at Lady Cilento that was open and
more permeable than most hospitals-especially in
light of its 800,000-square-foot size. Beyond breaking down physical barriers that separated the sick
from the well both inside and out, the design team
also saw the opportunity to challenge standard
approaches to layout and reimagine the role of the
hospital as a neighborhood anchor.
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"Our idea was to make this building more connected to the community so that you can actually
see into the building and people could see out of
the building," Wolfe says. "The idea that the hospital
is this closed vault into which you went to be treated
disappeared."
A healing tree
In building the new hospital, named after
Queensland physician Lady Phyllis Cilento, who
dedicated her career to women's and children's
health, the staff and services of two existing hospitals were combined. Royal Mater Children's Hospital
and Mater Children's Hospital moved into the new
public facility when it opened in 2014.
The public hospital is owned and operated by
Children's Health Queensland, a specialist statewide
hospital and health service for Australia's Queensland
state, and houses 359 beds-25 percent more than
both former hospitals combined. In addition, Lady
More than 2,980 fins were
installed on the exterior
of Lady Cilento to control
sun exposure as well as to
reflect natural light into the
building interior. The green
and purple tones reference
an arbor of bougainvillea
in nearby South Banks
Parklands, which can be
seen from the hospital.
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