Nazareth Wynnum Masterplan

Standing proudly atop Wynnum’s highest hill, Nazareth House Wynnum has been providing aged care support for over 100 years. Through a combination of extensive, yet sensitive, masterplanning and delivery of a new aged care facility, our modern design for this iconic ‘castle on the hill’ exemplifies Nazareth’s commitment to care.

Sitting at the centre of an 11-hectare site atop the highest point of Wynnum, Nazareth House overlooks the bay, city, and port with 360-degree views. Prior to our involvement, Nazareth House consisted of the heritage-listed Chapel and St Mary’s, which, along with sprawling annexes created over the last 50 years, is home to over 120 aged care residents.

The new masterplan for the site sees the ad-hoc annexes removed, giving breathing space back to the magnificent heritage buildings. A new purpose-built 150-bed aged care facility (RACF), along with 200 independent living units, is proposed for the site. The position and heights of these different precincts carefully works with the heritage site lines and curtilages, a site topography that falls up to 20m across the site, and consideration to demolition, staging and decanting.

Staggered across an 11 hectare site, Nazareth Wynnum’s masterplan has reshaped the prominent heritage site into a cohesive seniors living community. The challenges of a steeply falling site, heritage overlays, and a rapidly changing industry, were seen as opportunities and results in a dynamic and optimised masterplan.

Delivering four Independent Living precincts, and an aged care precinct, the masterplan for Nazareth Wynnum provides Nazareth Care the flexibility to develop all 5 precincts independent of each other, but feed off a centralised road and service network. The division of the site into precincts provides Nazareth Care the flexibility to deliver, or not deliver, different stages at their own pace pending market demand.

Working with a fully occupied and operational aged care site requires strategies for staging and decanting. With no opportunity to relocate off site, the extent of demolition and construction works needed to be carefully considered to not displace residents or interrupt the provision of care.

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