Feels Familiar

This project embeds a day hospice within Brisbane’s suburban fabric, transforming a timber worker’s cottage into a threshold between home and care. Preserving its familiar form, the cottage now serves as an informal meeting place, its front yard reimagined as a public garden that softens the transition from street to hospice. Beyond, a sequence of single-storey pavilions extends along the garden, interwoven with planting to maintain privacy and openness. Niches and reflection spaces invite quiet pause, while communal areas support gathering and care. The design reimagines hospice as a gentle, domestic presence—embedded in neighbourhood life, balancing dignity, comfort, and support.

Entrance to hospice

Builder Competition "Hospice: Home for the Terminally Ill Edition 4" - Shortlisted Project