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The Coppel and Piekarski Family Disability Respite Centre offers a respite care facility for children and adults with varied disabilities.

The building form is fluid and sinuous, reflecting a whimsical approach that is in contrast to the standard typology of similar facilities.

Accommodation wings are carved around landscaped areas with primary access from the living space to both passive and active courtyards. A ‘domestic’ quality to the design with communal kitchen, dining and living areas helps to deinstitutionalise the experience.

Each courtyard provides a sculptured environment that capitalises on the northern aspect, facilitates cross flow ventilation and provides areas for play.

Dynamic canopies provide an abstracted symbolic gesture referencing the ‘Star of David’, providing sunshade, weather protection and structures to be adorned for Jewish festivals.

Awards
AIA Victorian Architecture Awards: Sir Osborn McCutcheon Award
2017

  • Country

    Bunurong/ Boonwurrung

  • Address

    Caulfield, Victoria

  • Year

    2016

  • Status

    Completed

  • Gross Floor Area

    900 sqm

  • Client

    Jewish Care Victoria

  • Consultants

    Coffery, Macleod Consulting, Watermans, McKenzie Group, Wood & Grieve Engineers, Napier & Blakeley, Land Design Partnership

  • Builder

    Timberland and Company

  • Photography

    John Gollings

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