The proposal aims to revitalise the Royal Adelaide Hospital site through intense cross programming and the corresponding effects on the public realm. Educational and cultural programmes are inserted both as re-appropriations of existing buildings and new built environments. Two mixed use commercial towers and a plaza boost the sites economic performance, and residential development supports the use of the site. 

Adaptive reuse of modern hospital buildings drives a social and cultural narrative through the site. This narrative is translated and built upon by subtractions and additions to built form, creating visual and spatial events as experiences. Abstracted natural elements lead users through the site in the form of a buried artificial river which links the Botanic Gardens Kianka Wirra Lake. The green corridor and the buried river offer experiences which heighten the visitor’s awareness of the integration of nature in the urban environment. 

1. Increase density of built footprint to improve yield and quality of public space

2. Integrate sustainable solutions into the public realm
3. Active ground plane: increase economic sustainability, security and mobility

4. Introduce a variety of programme to support a diverse demographic

5. Blur boundary conditions with the surrounding urban context

6. Form follows flexibility: adapt modernist buildings to increase sense of spatial diversity and dissolve barriers

7. Cultural memory: integrate historical narrative