Distinctive, visually interesting and appealing St Andrews House is a three-storey, not-for-profit Residential Care Facility developed to provide accommodation and care for young adults with a physical or intellectual disability. The facility contains ten bedrooms, complete with ensuite, communal living and dining areas, kitchens, administration offices and numerous courtyards with beautifully landscaped areas.
Key to the project is a focus on community. Residents enjoy a private bedroom and commune together in shared living and dining areas that connect to outdoor courtyards and landscaped gardens.
All bedrooms, located on levels one and two, enjoy a northern aspect, overlooking the courtyard and landscaped areas on the ground floor. The main communal living and dining areas on the ground floor also face north to the courtyard. Large, deep splayed brick walls filter light into the space, providing a restful and sheltered place that connects seamlessly with outside.
An east-west axis connects the building to the adjacent St Andrews Church allowing the building to be read as a natural extension to the church, whilst maintaining its independence as a home.
Materiality throughout the project is robust, pared-back and refined, with off-form concrete and painted white brick providing a complementary but reinterpreted addition to the surrounding, mostly residential context.
Project Design Team
Angelo Candalepas - Director
Adrian Curtin
Andrew Skelton
Alex Dircks
Louis Faucheux
Eugene Soler
Awards
AIA NSW Premier’s Prize (2016)
AIA National Award for Public Architecture (2016)
AIA NSW Architecture Award for Public Architecture (2016)
