Health and Wellbeing
Health and wellbeing focused design
Our approach towards design of health and wellbeing settings seeks to develop a welcoming, comfortable, connected, intuitive public domain, flexible in nature to meet the complex needs of the users of these spaces.
In our approach to healthcare projects, we consistently advocate for the well-being of all users – patients, visitors, staff, students, administrators, and other healthcare precinct roles – while addressing client, operator and construction requirements and supporting the operational as well as architectural complexities of creating healing and aesthetically pleasing public spaces.
This enriches every healthcare setting, from large-scale, complex hospital campuses to intimate courtyards in residential aged care communities. From planning precincts to detailed design scale, championing our design philosophy for exceptional public spaces and gardens, we ensure that places we create offer inviting, welcoming, comfortable, inclusive and intuitive experiences.
Our collaborative approach
We believe genuine collaboration is imperative to the delivery of best practice design outcomes and adopt a holistic approach to ensure that each project benefits from the skills and expertise of the wider project team.
- We Understand Place
- Multidisciplinary Team Environments
- Public Domain Advoacy
- Co-design
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Respecting Culture
We understand the importance of user experience and each place we create contributes to the lasting impressions of the healthcare setting, at all scales.
We understand at detail scale the importance of a seamless indoor/outdoor experience, at Precinct scale creating generous public domain areas, and at neighbourhood scale the relationship with broader character and context, connections to local movement networks and blue green corridors.
Tract is a specialist in working within multidisciplinary team environments. Our unique skill and personnel structure ensures we are proactive in the inclusion of client and stakeholders throughout planning and design processes.
Our team is both passionate and professional, determined to collaborate in the design process by regularly work-shopping and ensuring project ownership at all levels. We have a wealth of experience, across an extensive portfolio of health projects over many years, working with multidisciplinary consultant teams.
We support, defend and manage the evolution of the public domain design throughout the project from initial master planning through to construction.
By putting users first, we ensure healthcare settings have a cohesive approach, meet functional requirements, and provide an intuitive wayfinding and experiential richness.
We welcome a Co-design methodology for actively engaging with a broad range of people in the design of health care environments. Our team at Tract have extensive experience in collaborating with design consultants, end users and service providers, to embed collective experience into design solutions. Our experience and research illustrate that engagement with stakeholders in this way ensures the design outcomes are well informed and fit for purpose.
Our involvement with major projects has built an extensive understanding of key requirements and a knowledgeable response to user groups’ expectations and needs.
To support this, Tract has access to a wide range of tools and techniques for engagement, including TractConnect, an in-house engagement service which can be augmented to assist in this process.
Our healthcare projects focus on providing culturally welcoming, safe and connected spaces to support Aboriginal people and their community when accessing healthcare and employment.
In particular, utilising collaborative design workshops which have a focus on Country allows a comprehensive design founded in appreciation and respect for the land and culture. To support this, Tract has commenced a formal reconciliation journey through the implementation of a Reconciliation Action Plan which is endorsed by Reconciliation Australia.
Delivering health and wellbeing
Our team services a wide array of projects and project needs, including the provision of expert technical and strategy advice throughout the life of a project.
Our team services a wide array of projects and project needs, including the provision of expert technical and strategy advice throughout the life of a project.
- Project and Site Visioning
- Initial Investigations
- Concept Design Development
- Approvals Pathways and Details Design
- Construction Phase
Town Planning
We maximise opportunities and develop innovative responses to site constraints to assist in developing an effective planning strategy and approach, and communicating how the project responds to a range of considerations.
Urban Design
With a wealth of experience in architecture and the urban realm, we work cohesively with planning teams and specialist consultants to ensure that our work is well considered and adheres to best practice approaches, with innovative thinking to future proof our projects.
Landscape Architecture
Our team of Landscape Architects and Horticulturists combine the required technical skills with vast experience in designing award winning therapeutic landscapes, healing spaces, and green infrastructure that enhance patient recovery, reduce stress, and encourage active lifestyles.
Digital Design
Our Media and Digital Engineering teams are proficient across a variety of digital design, GIS, BIM, mapping, data visualisation and 3D rendering platforms to efficiently model and interrogate design solutions.
