We have worked with some of the largest health infrastructure agencies in Australia and the UK. Acciona AECOM Architectus Arkitema ARUP Ashen Allen Architects Balfour Beatty BDP Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Trust Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Trust Bouygues Batiment Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust BVN Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust Camden Primary Care NHS Trust Carillion Catalyst Healthcare Circle Health Conrad Gargett Architects Cox Department of Health Estates, UK Deicke Richards Architects DesignInc. Architects Drivers Jonas Durrow Management Services Finnamore Management Consultants FJMT Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust Gray Puksand Architects Grimley Eve Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust Hamad Medical Corporation Hames Sharley Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust Illawarra and Shoalhaven Local Health District Integrated Health Projects (IHP) Jacobs John Laing Social Infrastructure Johnstaff Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnerships Klein Laing O’Rourke Mersey Care NHS Trust Metro North Health Ministry of Health, Republic of Turkey NHS Birmingham East & North (East Birmingham Health Authority) NHS South of Tyne and Wear Northern Birmingham Mental Health NHS Trust Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust Newcastle NHS Trust Northern Territory Department of Infrastructure Health Infrastructure NSW Plenary Group (Canada) Private Engineering Office of the Emir of Qatar Queensland Department of Health HDR Architects South Australia Department of Health South London and Maudsley NHS Trust South Tyneside Primary Care Trust South West London & St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust South West Sydney Local Health District South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Swanbury Penglase Architects Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust The Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust Tzannes UnitingCare Ageing Victoria Department of Health Waikato District Health Board Warren & Mahoney West Hertfordshire Community Health NHS Trust West Kent NHS and Social Care Trust West London Mental Health NHS Trust Western Sydney Local Health District Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust We have worked with some of the largest health infrastructure agencies in Australia and the UK. Read More Clients & Partners Jacaranda Place Shoalhaven Hospital Multi-Deck Carpark The Prince Charles Hospital See More › Selected Projects

Hilary Spiers Studio Manager Qualifications BSc(Arch) BArch(Hons) Australian Institute of Architects Registrations NSW 6201 Associations Hilary joined MAAP in 2022 as the Studio Manager. Hilary is a registered architect with over 25 years’ experience in architectural practice and studio leadership. Hilary manages the financial, HR, project resourcing, business, and strategic development for the practice. Prior to joining MAAP, Hilary led the Sydney Studio for a global architectural practice where she was responsible for all aspects of strategic and operational management. This was combined with managing projects across the Workplace, Community and Education sectors for the studio. Hilary has a strong understanding of managing client expectations within the complexities required to deliver well designed, sustainable and functional projects. Selected Work See More ›

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Location Client Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust Role Year 2008 Value £4.5m Contact Northgate Hospital Villas Jacaranda Place Clock View Glenside Health Campus See All › Related Projects

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John Clarke Senior Architect Qualifications BSc(EnvDes) BArch Australian Institute of Architects FRAIA 11224 Registrations NSW 8903 QLD 2403 Associations John joined MAAP in 2017 and is a Registered Architect with over 30 years’ experience ranging from planning to construction administration and post occupancy evaluation. He has a long history in architecture for health and well-being, working across significant health, aged care, mental health and multi-residential projects in NSW, QLD, the ACT and overseas. He works with MAAP as a senior practice architect across conducting design and quality review across all our projects. He has served in varying capacities and roles including feasibility consultant, master planner, urban designer, design architect, project architect, contract administrator and project manager. He has specific skills in safe design and risk management. He has addressed many conferences on urban design, architecture, and design for safety, health, and well being. Before working with MAAP, John held principal manager roles at Brisbane City Council and for GHD Architecture. He was practice manager of the Queensland Architectural Practice Academy and practitioner in his own Architectural Practice serving a wide range of clientele. Selected Work Jacaranda Place Mental Health Shoalhaven Hospital Multi-Deck Carpark Acute Health, Masterplanning Hamad Psychiatry Hospital Mental Health See More ›

Location Client Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust Role Year 2009 Value £6.1m Contact Rose Lodge Assessment and Treatment Unit Jacaranda Place Clock View Glenside Health Campus See All › Related Projects

We collaborate with many of the best clinicians and researchers, advancing best practice in health planning and design. We collaborate with many of the best clinicians and researchers, advancing best practice in health planning and design. Read More Expertise Start Now Shoalhaven Hospital Multi-Deck Carpark Acute Health, Masterplanning Start Now The Prince Charles Hospital Acute Health, Masterplanning Start Now Sunshine Coast University Hospital Masterplanning See More Projects › Examples in Practice Architecture As architects specialising in healthcare projects, we have a proven track record in the design of innovative hospitals, mental health units, clinics, and associated research and education facilities. Our aim is to enhance the lives of those who live and work in the buildings we design and that result in positive social, environmental and economic outcomes. We design environments that are protective and therapeutic, integrating art, interior design and landscape to create relaxing and healing spaces. Our designs are structured following carefully considered zoning and human-scaled features to ensure facilities feel welcoming and finding one’s way around is intuitive. Interior designs are developed to balance clinical functions with social purpose creating spaces sensitive to the needs of the diverse range of people who use our buildings. Access to nature has a powerful role in supporting health recovery and our designs incorporate good indoor-outdoor connections, gardens and courtyards as an integral part of the therapeutic environment. Our most successful projects have been built around strong engagement with our clients and stakeholders. We structure our work around a series of intensive workshops to first establish the client vision and ensure that it underpins the whole design process from the earliest sketches through to construction documentation. We differentiate our services through an emphasis on clear accessible diagrams, three dimensional views, and data rich Building Information Models to guide our clients through the process. Masterplanning Masterplanning means designing the foundation for an unknown future. Like game-planning in chess, masterplanning involves designing a strategy to make sure that short-term interests do not interfere with long-term goals and very long term possibilities. A good masterplan makes for good bones for future development. There are three keystones of masterplanning: Flexibility for inevitable change, Expandability for increased numbers and growth, Accessibility for diversity, disability and future health challenges. Within this framework there are three beacons to guide us to make the best choices about the future: Evidence based on past experience, Research into emerging knowledge, Awareness that care needs to be increasingly patient-centred. Our masterplans are guided by three core principles of clinical planning, infrastructure planning and environmental planning. Our best masterplans follow strategies which support all three principles together so that all items of capital investment support improved clinical outcomes, reduce long term infrastructure costs and improve the quality of the environment. MAAP’s respected track record, role in academic and industry research, and experience in designing exemplar patient-centred environments means we are well placed to guide our clients through the masterplanning process and make good masterplanning decisions. Research & Innovation MAAP recognise that the design of the built environment profoundly affects health outcomes. We support the growing demand for person-centred models of care and recovery-centred care for mental health. This has implications for the architecture of health facilities because they are too often still being designed to an old paradigm of clinical service-centred care. We regularly engage in design-led research for clients to provide strategic advice and direction at all stages of health projects. This has helped our clients focus on the big picture, ask the right questions, and identify evidence-based solutions that integrate with policy, design and delivery. Research and innovation at MAAP is fully integrated into our design process and led by Mungo Smith and Noam Raz drawing on their experience in research, authoring design guidance and advice to government clients in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Design Guidance Design guidance is intended to facilitate the realisation of primary objectives into design and built form. The involvement of practitioners in the formulation of guidance improves the quality of the guidance and outcomes. MAAP’s continuing engagement in researcher-led theory and empirical evidence gathering promises to further improve the quality of the buildings and functions that are founded on design guidance. Design guidelines, generic briefing materials and design standards establish a minimum understanding of an architectural problem. They should be treated as a foundation: an agreed minimum standard based on past models of care and previously successful ideas. Because of the level of abstraction required in generic guidance, guidelines should not necessarily be applied uncritically. They provide a baseline from which designers, clients and stakeholders can collaboratively develop solutions suited to the specifics of the specific site, service users, clinical service and model of care.

​Our innovation and design excellence have been recognised by respected institutions in Australia and abroad. WAFX - Health & Ageing World Architecture Festival 2023 Alexandria Health Centre Community Health, Mental Health Healthcare Architecture Today - Test of Time Awards 2023 Clock View Mental Health Future Projects - Health World Architecture Festival 2023 Alexandria Health Centre Community Health, Mental Health Best Public Building $10m - $15m NSW MBA Awards 2020 Shoalhaven Hospital Multi-Deck Carpark Acute Health, Masterplanning Mental Health Award International Academy for Design and Health 2020 Jacaranda Place Mental Health Mental Health Award European Healthcare Design Awards 2020 Secure Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit Mental Health Best Mental Health Project - Highly Commended European Healthcare Design Awards 2016 Clock View Mental Health Healthy Outdoor Lifestyle Design In Mental Health Awards 2016 Clock View Mental Health Service User Experience Design In Mental Health Awards 2016 Clock View Mental Health Best Patient Experience Healthcare Estates Awards 2015 Clock View Mental Health Winner International Design Competition 2014 Al Wakra Mental Health Facility Mental Health Gold Standard Design Audit Certification University Stirling Dementia Services Development Centre 2013 Roker and Mowbray Dementia Care Centre Mental Health, Aged Care Gold Award Architects for Health IHEEM Awards 2013 Glenside Health Campus Mental Health, Masterplanning Project of the Year Constructing Excellence North East Awards 2012 Ferndene Children & Young People's Centre Mental Health RIBA Award RIBA 2012 Roseberry Park Mental Health, Aged Care Integration & Collaborative Working Constructing Excellence North East Awards 2012 Ferndene Children & Young People's Centre Mental Health Integration & Collaborative Working Constructing Excellence National Awards 2012 Ferndene Children & Young People's Centre Mental Health Best Innovation Society of British Interior Design Awards 2012 Ferndene Children & Young People's Centre Mental Health Best Use of the Arts Building Better Healthcare Awards 2012 Ferndene Children & Young People's Centre Mental Health International Mental Health Design D&H International Academy Awards 2012 Ferndene Children & Young People's Centre Mental Health Non-Residential Winner Insulated Render & Cladding Association 2012 Ferndene Children & Young People's Centre Mental Health Client of the Year RIBA 2012 Roseberry Park Mental Health, Aged Care Gold Award RIBA Northern Network Awards 2011 Roseberry Park Mental Health, Aged Care Hadrian Award (North East Project of the Year) RIBA Northern Network Awards 2011 Roseberry Park Mental Health, Aged Care Highly Commended – Best Future Health Project Design and Health International Academy Awards 2011 Glenside Health Campus Mental Health, Masterplanning International Mental Health - Highly Commended Design and Health Awards 2010 Roseberry Park Mental Health, Aged Care Best Designed Hospital Building Better Healthcare Awards 2004 Kidderminster Treatment Centre Acute Health, Community Health Highly Commended Building Better Healthcare Awards 2004 Kidderminster Treatment Centre Acute Health, Community Health Project Year Award Our innovation and design excellence have been recognised by respected institutions in Australia and abroad. Read More Awards Learn More › Our award-winning approach is grounded in a long history of research and innovation. We work closely with our clients to provide specialist research, strategic advice, and unique solutions in response to complex design challenges and demanding delivery frameworks. Research & Knowledge

Location Chermside QLD, Australia Client Queensland Health Role Architect, Lead Consultant Year 2020 Value $70m Contact Noam Raz The Jacaranda Place adolescent extended treatment centre is a new state-wide mental health facility at The Prince Charles Hospital. It forms part of the implementation of the Queensland Government's response to the closing of the Barrett Adolescent Centre at Wacol in 2013/14. Jacaranda Place The Deputy Director General, John Wakefield, has thanked the team for an amazing effort within such a tight timeframe. He also acknowledged the way you’ve all conducted yourselves professionally and sensitively with stakeholders. One parent who is also on Steering Committee also thanked team for the co-design approach and results; which was collaborative, valuable to be part of, and previously unheard of. Gunther de Greave Project Manager, Destravis Jacaranda Place Clock View Glenside Health Campus See All › Related Projects The facility consists of a 12-bed mental health unit, a day program centre and integrated school with specialist vocational training facilities. MAAP was contracted by Destravis to support development of the model of care, functional brief, site selection and develop business case and tender designs for Queensland Health. We completed documentation acting for design and construct contractor ADCO in collaboration with DWP. The design builds on a two-year long stakeholder co-design process conducted in collaboration with Childrens Health Queensland and the Department of Education. carers, consumers and staff were involved every step of the way and had major impact on the landscape and interior design. The project won the International Academy for Design and Health 2020 award for best Mental Health Project in 2020. Awards 2020 Mental Health Award International Academy for Design and Health

Location Client South West London & St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust Role Year 2011 Value Not disclosed Contact Springfield Hospital Masterplan Jacaranda Place Clock View Glenside Health Campus See All › Related Projects

“Mental illness is more ubiquitous than cancer. How can we help the ‘missing middle’? People with mental illness struggle to find the quality of care they deserve. But there’s hope and a pathway for progress.” - Prof. Patrick McGorry 10 January 2020 The Missing Middle “Mental illness is more ubiquitous than cancer. How can we help the ‘missing middle’? People with mental illness struggle to find the quality of care they deserve. But there’s hope and a pathway for progress.” - Prof. Patrick McGorry MAAP were commissioned by Victorian Health and Human Services Building Authority (VHHSBA) to provide analysis, mapping, and learnings from case studies into the planning and development of mental health facilities in Victoria and to inform VHHSBA of opportunities for improvement in their current service model. The investigation of these inquiries originates from a workshop held as VHHSBA on th 21st August 2019 to explore ideas for the provision and location of new infrastructure an subsequent discussion based on a review of initial findings. Despite the policy of de-institutionalisation, which became a primary aspiration in Europe and North America in the 1970s and 1980s, and by Australia during 1990s and early 2000s, the move to provide community based services, the transfer of the majority of inpatient beds to mainstream (somatic) hospital sites has simply re-created the institution in another setting. Furthermore, as new facilities have been progressively added to extant hospital estates they have taken up valuable space which would have been more productively utilised for hospital expansion and replacement. The preference for single storey mental health facilities which eventually became “policy” in 2000s and the enhanced space standards that increased the size of the footprint required has resulted in significant parts of a hospital campus being compromised by a service which could be argued is better located elsewhere i.e. closer to the population it serves (“right place, right time”) or in a location at the edge of a hospital campus facing the community it serves. One of the reasons given for “mainstreaming” was that it de-stigmatised mental health services by putting them on a general somatic hospital campus and presumably “normalising” them in a medical/clinical setting. A different philosophy suggested in the early days of de-institutionalisation was that by locating mental health services visibly in a normal street or suburb connected them with their community and could be identified as an important investment in their health. De-stigmatisation by familiarity. Furthermore by sharing part of the new investment with the local population by inviting them to access and use the facilities for community activities this would help them break down the barriers and provide a context for better education. Thirty years ago this may have been a stretch too far but in 2020 perhaps the time is right for another try? A number of MAAP projects have included activity centres that provide out of hours access for the surrounding community and encourage participation in the running or the maintenance of the facilities. Caretaking, gardening, organising events with other institutions such as schools or sports clubs. Read the full report here. The Well Placed Hospital Acute Health The Missing Middle Mental Health See All › Related Knowledge