To provide a village-feel community that allows residents to enjoy the right balance of care and independence, depending on their needs.
Designing aged care facilities that help seniors continue to live happy, healthy and productive lives is a gratifying task.
Our goal is to always create a safe, warm, welcoming environment, a place of community richness and vitality, that also fulfills the specific requirements of our client’s model of care.
For each project, we work closely with professional care providers to ensure we develop a clear picture of the needs of staff and residents. With our deep applied experience we then deliver highly effective solutions.
Having delivered over 100 projects to date, few can match our experience in this area and we’re pleased to have recently invested further in our Aged Care team.
Griffith, ACT
To provide a village-feel community that allows residents to enjoy the right balance of care and independence, depending on their needs.
Residential Aged Care facility
Completed
$35m
The contemporary facility at Griffith comprises 160 rooms catering to the specific needs of low-care, high-care and dementia residents. All rooms have easy access to dynamic shared spaces including sun rooms, glazed internal winter gardens, as well as accessible landscaped gardens. The large facility was designed around an internal street that provides additional resident amenities including a café, movie theatre, saloon, day spa and physiotherapy centre.
The building employs simple and effective environmentally sustainable design principles to reduce operating costs over the life of the building, including high thermal mass, water harvesting, operable sunshade devices, natural sun and daylighting, passive heating and a night purging system.
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NSW
To provide an active yet safe environment for our residents that feels part of the local community.
Seniors living
DA Approval. Completion Date: TBA
$26m
The masterplan design of this campus was dictated by the bounding 3 roads one of which is a major arterial Henry Lawson drive.
With the surrounding building fabric being predominantly private residential, pushing the built envelope was a challenge which was overcome with multiple shadow and visual studies demonstrating little to no impact. The proposed buildings respond to the surrounding streets in an active manner promoting security and neighbourhood watch.
The proposal consists of 6 buildings with a mix of 1, 2 & 3 bedroom units. The built form bound an internal open
piazza for the resident use with sensory and visual cues.
The gradient issues of the site are resolved with effective landscaping, civil and architectural connections allowing the residents to make maximum use of the central piazza and connecting pathways promoting physical activity essential for the users.
Red Hill, ACT
Real independent living for low-care residents.
Independent Living units and community facilities
Under construction. Expected completion: Dec 2022
$45m
The proposed Red Hill Development in Canberra will replace outdated housing stock on the site with a contemporary residential village.
The design responds to numerous site constraints including a maximum height of 2 storeys to maintain the suburbs residential character and large setbacks from surrounding neighbours.
The design aims to create a dynamic and supportive community within the development through the provision of a range of resident facilities. Located within the complex and with accessible links to residential units will be a swimming pool, health club and landscaped gardens. All dwellings are adaptable to accommodate ageing in place for all residents.
The design will utilise environmentally sustainable design principles, incorporating open space with northern orientation to maximise solar gain, passive heating and cooling and the implementation of water harvesting and reuse systems.
As a one of the Principals at Stanton Dahl Architects, Mahi leads and delivers projects with a client focussed mindset. She has developed long term professional associations with all stakeholders through a collaborative approach, understanding not only the big picture but also the finer details on each project.
Mahi has a sophisticated understanding of projects developed over two decades of delivering architecture within the categories of Residential, Aged Care, Retirement Living, Aviation, Commercial and Education.
Over the last decade, she has realised her niche passion to contribute to the specialised residential built space including Aged Care, Retirement Living and Social and Affordable housing. She is constantly mindful of the impact of the designs on the residents physical, mental & spiritual health and their quality of life and is committed to a holistic and integrated approach towards the built form.
Mahi has amassed an impressive portfolio working with leading not for profit providers, housing organisations and also high-end boutique firms, ensuring the projects deliver the client’s vision for the end users.
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