The redevelopment of Frankston Hospital – now Peninsula University Hospital, reimagines and reorientates an existing campus, through careful intervention, into a welcoming institution in close dialogue with its place.

 

Hospitals, by their nature, are complex design challenges, given their multiple stakeholders, intricate needs, regulatory oversights, and technological, servicing and equipment demands. They are also a locus for their surrounding community, and increasingly need to actively promote health and wellbeing. The recently completed Frankston Hospital redevelopment was delivered within a public private partnership framework with a COVID-era gestation, during which time spiralling construction costs increased the stakes for every design decision.

The result shows the value of thought and care in overcoming significant obstacles to arrive at a building, located in a growing coastal city servicing a diverse population. The design was founded on a pre-existing framework co-created with the Bunurong Land Council Aboriginal Corporation, centred on the guiding principle of Healing Country, Healing People, which has been realised through a series of contextual and inclusive spaces that emphasise the links between place, people and health.

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