INTERGENERATIONAL LIVING AND LEARNING CAMPUS

MAKO Architecture was approached by a member based not for profit charitable organisation which provides support services to enrich the lives of people with intellectual disability through person centred active support that provides choice, opportunities and skills for life. MAKO’s masterplan provides improved utilisation of the sites will enhance current operations and provide greater opportunities to improve and expand their delivery of support services to the disability sector both in the local community and across the state. The proposed master plan for the site provides public benefit to the local neighbourhood, the suburb and municipality. The guiding urban design principles leading to our proposal for the following outcomes; - A sustainable future for operations on the site; - A cohesive masterplanned urban environment with a variety of uses and high-quality public and private open spaces designed to bring vibrancy and amenity to the future community; - A carefully considered height of building strategy which sensitively mediates low scale existing adjacent development with the increasing intensity of commercial and civic development to the north of the site; - A diversity of building typologies that include a new and improved support services campus, Housing for Seniors and People with a Disability, Seniors Affordable Housing and Residential terraced town houses; and - An urban outcome that is symbiotically integrated with the vision for adjacent land owned by another charitable organization