The Terraces

The Terraces

The Terraces, Paddington, 2021 UDIA National Awards for Excellence winner of the Seniors Living category and President’s Award.

Featuring 79 Independent Living Units and 100 Residential Aged Care beds across this 1.5ha site, the Terraces is a truly inclusive intergenerational masterplan. Expansive communal facilities, refurbished heritage buildings, and a strong connection to the local community support this vibrant, fully integrated aging-in-place community.

At the heart of the precinct sits a new 8-storey development brings Aged Care and Independent Living into one united building. At the ground plane, a combined main reception supports both the RAC and ILUs, with a hotel-scale lounge and arcade. The arcade creates a local ‘streetscape’, comprising a hair salon, beauty salon, shops, therapists’ rooms, and consulting suites. Additional function rooms, cinema, library, games room, health and wellness centre, pool, and a spa are provided for ILU residents. A 20-bed memory support unit at lower level of RACF utilises a secure landscaped courtyard, while ILUs are positioned on the upper levels.

The Terraces project is a vertically integrated seniors living facility, positioned around a central terraced courtyard. This courtyard links the varying levels of this 20m sloping site, with restored heritage buildings forming a rich and culturally significant centrepiece. The building’s natural external palette uses long-lasting, low-maintenance materials that create a domestic and homely feel, whilst considering the on-going operational and maintenance requirements of our client.

Connecting with the community is not just about increased amenity and permeability, but respecting and celebrating the history of the site and its place within that community.

Already established as a 40-year-old nursing home, together with a 170-year-old disused but heritage-listed Scottish Hospital at Gatekeeper’s Lodge, the design for the Terrace had to consider decanting, staging, and respecting the history of the site. Delivered across two stages, the final master plan saw the repurposing of the dilapidated Gatekeeper’s Lodge and Scottish Hospital into luxury independent living apartments and two new purpose-built buildings, all interconnected across the steeply sloping site to support resident’s mobility and social connectivity.

Designed to be a part of the local community, numerous access points around the perimeter connect the site at strategic points. Land was also given back to the community, granting a 1366 sqm public park, the second largest park in Paddington, with BBQ facilities and playground for shared use by the residents and community.

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