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Posted On: July 26th 2026, 05:24 am
Recap of my Semester 1 Design Studio project – Hidden Sun
Last semester, I had the opportunity to design a healthcare hub for ATSICHS Brisbane, an Indigenous community-controlled health service located within the City of Logan. The project focused on applying the Nuka model of care, requiring us to rethink conventional healthcare design through a patient-centred, culturally responsive lens.
Through extensive research into Indigenous culture, community and place, we developed design responses that promote safety, healing, connection and wellbeing. This was one of the most rewarding projects I’ve completed, challenging me to think critically about the role architecture plays in supporting both community and culture.
Below is the project’s design rationale, outlining the research, concept and architectural response that informed the final proposal
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Hidden Sun reimagines the Logan Health Hub as a civic landscape of care; embedded within community, connected to Country, and shaped through circularity and gathering. Organised around a protected internal courtyard, the project establishes a gradient between public and private, extending outward to terraces, event areas, and shaded edges that engage the civic streetscape, while also retreating inward toward quieter spaces of reflection, peace and connection in the central courtyard. Vibrant colour, texture, and pattern are integrated as spatial devices that support identity, orientation, and play, softening the institutional character of the clinic. Hidden Sun positions healthcare not as an isolated institution, but as a visible and active part of everyday community life.
Last semester, I had the opportunity to design a healthcare hub for ATSICHS Brisbane, an Indigenous community-controlled health service located within the City of Logan. The project focused on applying the Nuka model of care, requiring us to rethink conventional healthcare design through a patient-centred, culturally responsive lens.
Through extensive research into Indigenous culture, community and place, we developed design responses that promote safety, healing, connection and wellbeing. This was one of the most rewarding projects I’ve completed, challenging me to think critically about the role architecture plays in supporting both community and culture.
Below is the project’s design rationale, outlining the research, concept and architectural response that informed the final proposal
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Hidden Sun reimagines the Logan Health Hub as a civic landscape of care; embedded within community, connected to Country, and shaped through circularity and gathering. Organised around a protected internal courtyard, the project establishes a gradient between public and private, extending outward to terraces, event areas, and shaded edges that engage the civic streetscape, while also retreating inward toward quieter spaces of reflection, peace and connection in the central courtyard. Vibrant colour, texture, and pattern are integrated as spatial devices that support identity, orientation, and play, softening the institutional character of the clinic. Hidden Sun positions healthcare not as an isolated institution, but as a visible and active part of everyday community life.
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