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HEALTH AND ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS
health related teaching, research, consultancy and practice projects



Seeking Asylum
Studio Leader: Brendan Jones, Practice Director: Antarctica
Upperpool Design Studio, RMIT Master of Architecture (Professional), Semester 01, 09.

Ian Watts, Facilitator and Health Care Advisor,
Practice: Antarctica
Formerly of, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)







DESIGN CONSULTANCY
Aboriginal Remote Community Health Facilities
Ampilatwatja Community, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Design Consultancy Project leader:
Brendan Jones, RMIT Architecture Upperpool Design Studio Leader; Practice Director:
Antarctica
Consultant:
Ian Watts,
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)
Design Team:
RMIT Architecture Upperpool Design Students

Amy Melrose, Emily Wallace, Gaudi Olaga, Trecia Lim, Girish Sagram, Lisa Seibert, Matt Dravich, Raphael Fantl, Will Loft and Chung Ho.
Client:
Ampilatwatja Community, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Partners:
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)

Ampilatwatja Community, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO)



HOME AWAY FROM HOME: Aboriginal Remote Community Health Facilities.
Upperpool Design Studio, RMIT Master of Architecture Professional Degree, Semester 02, 2008.
Studio Leader: Brendan Jones.


Related Projects:

RMIT Architecture - Aboriginal Architecture Projects







RACGP CLINIC DESIGN GUIDE PUBLICATION
Graham Crist, Brendan Jones, Judy Evans (RACGP), Ian Watts (RACGP)
Rebirth of a Clinic: A Design workbook for architecture in general practice and primary care,
Canberra: The Royal Australian College of General Practioners, 2008
ISBN 978-0-86906-289-0

Project Leaders:
Graham Crist, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer, Practice Director:
Antarctica
Brendan Jones, Practice Director: Antarctica
Dr Huy Quoc An, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)
Ian Watts (RACGP)
Judy Evans (RACGP),
Gerard Fox (RACGP)
Student Studio group: RMIT Architecture Lowerpool Design Studio, Sem 1, 2007
Partners: Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)




"Rebirth of a Clinic" extract (issuu online publishing)

other formats:
"Rebirth of a clinic" extract (pdf download)
"Rebirth of a Clinic" extract (flash viewer)


RACGP MEDIA RELEASE
A new vision for General Practice Design
Rebirth of a Clinic - Architectural Workbook Launch
3 June 2008

RACGP INTERVIEW
Graham Crist Interview (audio file),
RACGP | General Practice Essentials, Edition 10, June 2008

NATIONAL RADIO INTERVIEW
Design and the Doctors Surgery
By Design
Radio National
Host: Alan Saunders
Interview with:
Dr Huy Quoc An, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
Graham Crist, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer, Practice Director:
Antarctica
14 June 2008







DESIGN STUDIO
REBIRTH OF THE CLINIC
Lowerpool Design Studio
RMIT Bachelor of Architecture, Semester 1, 2007
Studio Leaders: Graham Crist and Brendan Jones, Practice:
Antarctica
Studio consultants:
Ian Watts (RACGP)
Gerard Fox (RACGP)


CONFERENCE ABSTRACT
Graham Crist,
RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer, Practice Director:
Antarctica
"Architecture for clinics: Current considerations" (pdf download)
50th Annual RACGP Scientific Conference, 2007




DESIGN PROJECT CASE STUDIES -
CONFERENCE PAPER ONLINE
"The Rebirth of the Clinic: Case studies in architectural design for general practice" Graham Crist, RMIT Architecture Senior Lecturer, Practice Director: Antarctica
50th RACGP Annual Scientific Conference, 2007
Student design test cases subsequently incorporated into the RACGP publication:

Rebirth of a Clinic: A Design workbook for architecture in general practice and primary care,
Graham Crist, Brendan Jones, Judy Evans (RACGP), Ian Watts (RACGP)
Canberra: The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), 2008
ISBN 978-0-86906-289-0







                  

RMIT ARCHITECTURE STUDENT WINS NATIONAL STUDENT BIENNALE PRIZE
Daniel Griffin, RMIT Architecture Student
"On the Ground [Maternity Hospital + Epigenetic Research Facility_Jenin_West Bank 2050]”
RMIT Architecture Major Project Design Thesis
Supervisors: Greg More and Karen Burns
joint winner:
RAIA Colorbond Steel Student Biennale Award, 2008

This is the primary and most prestigious national Australian undergraduate student competition.

RMIT Architecture student Daniel Griffin has won the RAIA Colorbond Steel Student Biennale Prize, 2008. Griffin explores ways of hybridising Arabic and Western architectures, and digitally investigates systems of inter-relationships in a traditional urban context. He shares the  $8,000 prize with co-winner Jade Myers of the University of Queensland.







SHORTLISTED COMPETITION ENTRY
James Mo, RMIT Architecture Student
Healesville and District Hospital
RMIT Architecture final year Design Thesis Major Project, 2006
Supervisor: Dr Peter Corrigan
Shortlisted Competition Entry for
Architects for Health Student Health Design Award, 2007
Award Presentation, Wren Room, RIBA,  London, UK
30th August, 2007
Architects for Health, London, UK

Judging Panel:
Burt Lichtman - AfH (Chairman of the judging panel)
Mungo Smith - AfH and MAAP
Geoff Shearcroft - The AOC
Paul Mercer - AfH and Tangram Architects
Sunand Prasad: Penoyre & Prasad and RIBA (Event Chair)







RMIT ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO & SCOPING DOCUMENT
Hamilton: Welcome to Reality
RMIT Architecture Upperpool Design Studio
semester 2, 2003
Tutor: Graham Crist
This studio, based in the regional town of Hamilton, Victoria involved students working on a very challenging design project with a real brief, client and users. The project involved alteration and extension of an existing building, the Mulleratarong Centre, to better house people with mental disabilities. Students considered current social research on the area and the sanitorium as a historical architectural type. The schemes were all required to demonstrate an effective approach to environmental sustainability and consider the implications of situating these technical performance criteria within a qualitative social sustainability agenda.





Compiled by Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture Research Director