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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.

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.