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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

MAAP's Secure Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit at Thomas Embling Hospital has been awarded Best Mental Health Project in the International category at the European Healthcare Design Awards in 2020. 10 February 2021 SPICU at Thomas Embling Hostital wins at European Healthcare Design Awards MAAP's Secure Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit at Thomas Embling Hospital has been awarded Best Mental Health Project in the International category at the European Healthcare Design Awards in 2020. The SPICU was designed to meet the episodic needs of high risk mentally ill patients transferred from prison with secure humane containment and facilities for therapeutic engagement, potentially separate to other patients. The facility provides residential accommodation for the stabilisation of patients alongside carefully planned day spaces, de-escalation, seclusion and treatment rooms, and secure patient courtyards near staff offices and support spaces. The team were involved in developing the model of care and functional brief through an intensive user engagement process. The unit is located to engage with long views beyond the secure campus boundary and provides access to gardens. Alexandria Health Centre wins WAFX Award for Ageing and Health Mental Health Alexandria Health Centre shortlisted at World Architecture Festival Awards Mental Health Clock View Hospital recognised for enduring value Mental Health See All › Related Knowledge

Location Client Laing O’Rourke / Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust Role Year 2009 Value £6.5m Contact Claydon Wing, Stoke Mandeville Hospital Shoalhaven Hospital Multi-Deck Carpark The Prince Charles Hospital Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Service (STARS) See All › Related Projects

Location Redcliffe QLD, Australia Client Metro North Hospital & Health Service | Johnstaff Projects Role Masterplanner, Consulting Architect Year 2019 Value $400m Contact Mungo Smith MAAP has worked alongside Johnstaff, Hames Sharley; Arup and Rider Levett Bucknall on the masterplan and concept design for Metro North Health's Redcliffe Hospital Redevelopment preliminary business case which was completed in early 2019. Redcliffe Hospital Redevelopment Shoalhaven Hospital Multi-Deck Carpark The Prince Charles Hospital Glenside Health Campus See All › Related Projects The masterplan addresses the full projected requirements for the hospital over the next decade and informs a range of short list scope options and a preferred scope of development. It is anticipated that the capital cost of the preferred option will be in the order of $400 million end cost. The masterplan acknowledges that a flexible approach is required to allow Metro North Health to consider the opportunities and costs of a range of scope and redevelopment options as the project progresses beyond the PBC gateway.

Location United Kingdom Client NHS Estates | Department of Health Role Consultant, Design Research Year 1992 Value n/a Contact Mungo Smith Health Building Notes - HBN 27 – Intensive Therapy Unit Design for Future Health TIME Project: Edge Lane Hospital Health Building Notes - HBN 04 (2nd Ed) – Acute Inpatient Accommodation Bevan Ward - Single Bedroom Pilot Project See All › Related Projects

MAAP is a global architecture, urban design, and health planning practice. Based in Sydney, we work across Australia and have recently completed projects in the UK, New Zealand, Canada, Singapore, Jordan, Pakistan and Qatar. MAAP is a global architecture, urban design, and health planning practice. Based in Sydney, we work across Australia and have recently completed projects in the UK, New Zealand, Canada, Singapore, Jordan, Pakistan and Qatar. We are knowledge leaders in the design of acute and mental health facilities and have made significant contributions to both foundational research and built projects. Our work has been recognised by some of the most respected healthcare and architectural design institutions. Jacaranda Place Shoalhaven Hospital Multi-Deck Carpark Clock View See Awards › Awards Sector Exclusivity We work exclusively in the health and care sector. Our sector-focused approach helps us achieve excellent design outcomes and our projects regularly receive awards acknowledging our imaginative approach combining theory and practice. 1 2 Experience We have over 30 years of experience masterplanning sites, designing buildings, and evaluating completed projects. We have accumulated a significant knowledge base devoted to all types of healthcare facilities. Research and Innovation We are committed to continually improving outcomes by leading research commissions and applying evidence-based findings to our projects. We frequently collaborate with leading international research partners and regularly undertake studies on the design of health facilities to inform future projects. 3 4 Challenging Orthodoxy We have consistently challenged the accepted orthodoxy of the deep plan hospital typology as an appropriate physical environment for treatment and care. Essentially we believe that hospitals benefit holistically from better environments, meaning better air quality, less noise pollution, more natural light, quality aesthetics, improved views and more domestic and human-scaled environments for patients, staff and visitors. User Engagement We often work with complex client and stakeholder organisations, including multiple agencies and tiers of services. We use a variety of “visioning” and participation tools to understand operational and workforce issues. Our staff have personally spent many hours visiting inpatient units and connecting with the service users and service providers to understand their needs. 5 What makes us MAAP In addition to architecture and urban design, we regularly provide government and private clients with independent peer review, strategic advice and international benchmarking research. Recent clients & partners include: Clients & Partners Johnstaff › ARUP › Jacobs › AECOM › Health Infrastructure NSW › Te Whatu Ora | Health New Zealand › UnitingCare › Victorian Health Building Authority › See All › Digital Design Our projects benefit from advanced Building Information Model (BIM) workflows. We use industry-standard modelling and database software to design and document highly detailed health planning and building information. Some benefits include improved collaboration with stakeholders, consultants and contractors; enhanced visualisation of 3D models; accurate documentation; “fit first time” support for off-site fabrication; and exceptional information quality at handover. We are specialist architects, urban designers, and health planners. Read More Research by Design MAAP was originally established in the UK in 1991 out of the Live Projects Section of the Medical Architecture Research Unit (MARU) at London South Bank University. MARU has a strong reputation integrating design, education and research into its course on Health Facility Planning which has attracted post-graduate students from all over the world. We have been building innovative, research-led projects for more than 30 years and offer masterplanning, architecture and health planning services worldwide. Get in touch to explore how we can work together. Contact Us Get in Touch › Sustainability Low carbon impact design is an integral feature of our approach. Projects are interwoven with sustainable design principles such as the provision of natural light and ventilation; selection of building typologies that create protective microclimates; selection of sustainable materials; integration of landscape for mitigation of heat island effects and pollution; and water-sensitive urban design.

MAAP is a uniquely specialised and agile studio with expertise in delivering large, complex projects. MAAP is a uniquely specialised and agile studio with expertise in delivering large, complex projects. Read More Practice Architecture can have a profound influence in enhancing our lives, health, and sense of well-being. Our design approach places an emphasis on accessibility and flexibility, creating spaces that foster well-being and are inclusive to all. Through inventive solutions and thoughtful design, we aim to shape spaces that enrich the human experience, and inspire positive change for individuals, communities, and society, for social good We believe that collaboration and good communication are essential to creating spaces that meet the needs of our clients and project stakeholders. Our studio fosters an inclusive, participatory design approach, promoting meaningful dialogue to understand each project's vision, aspirations, opportunities and challenges. This open exchange of ideas ensures that every healthcare facility is tailored to uniquely reflects our clients' values and objectives. through open conversations Immense benefit can be realised by incorporating natural elements into spaces for health and well-being. By harnessing natural light, fresh air, planting, and views to nature, we create environments that are calming, soothing, and conducive to mental and physical healing and recovery. Our sustainable design approach goes beyond aesthetics, promoting reduced energy demand, on-site renewables, and responsible material selection to minimise carbon footprints. By harmonising with nature, we optimise the well-being of patients, staff, and visitors, while mitigating the impact of our projects on the environment. in concert with nature We design We're always on the lookout for talented people at any stage of their career. Whether you’re an established architect or planner looking for a compelling design challenge, or a recent graduate taking your first steps in the industry, we can provide you with the opportunity to make your mark and build a distinguished and fulfilling career. Join the Team Opportunities are advertised on this website or on LinkedIn when available, but we're always interested in talking to talented people. Send us a one page CV and portfolio to start the conversation. Get in Touch ›