Mornington Nursing Home, Australia
The Mornington nursing house in Victoria, Australia is a large beach house or coastal hotel rather than a hospital.
The structure is very spatial and has lovely environment from a medico-centric model of care to one where staff deliver great protection for every resident. The description of this building is perhaps more akin to that of a hotel, than a nursing home.
The reception presents like a four-star hotel concierge desk – with a friendly and helpful hospital attendant. Generous corridors open up to the outside bringing in natural ventilation and light.
Each room was created as bedrooms. Each bedroom contains a bay window, where a spectacular view out can be enjoyed. One interesting feature about these bay windows is that formally articulates the building along its length and works to control the hot summer sun.
Taking from the beach house, the building appears ‘timber-like’- clad in oversized ‘timber’ planks which are rendered in brick. This operation gives the building a homelike scale and meets the serviceability requirements of the owner. The planks are figured with a combination of smooth and rough ‘timber’ grain, the latter constructed out of conventional house bricks embossed with a striated digital design.
