Australian Unity Healthcare Melbourne Workplace Development, Interior Architecture
Australian Unity Melbourne Workplace
Healthcare Provider Building in Victoria, Australia – offices design by Bates Smart Architects
4 October 2019
Australian Unity Melbourne Offices
Design: Bates Smart Architects
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Village square model for wellness: Bates Smart completes Australian Unity, Melbourne
Photos by Bates Smart

Australian architecture and interiors firm Bates Smart has completed its latest workplace project for healthcare provider Australian Unity.
Challenged with creating a new flexible workplace able to accommodate over 1000 staff, Australian Unity engaged Bates Smart to design a space providing connection between people, heritage and community.
The hub-style workplace sits at the base of a tower on Melbourne?s Spring Street behind the façade of Mission Hall, a heritage building that was designed in the 1880?s by Bates, Peebles and Smart.

The design for the new headquarters focuses on wellness and enabling an agile, technology reliant workforce. Bates Smart created three floor ?villages?, all connected via a large stairwell and void.

Socially engineered lower floors encourage collaboration, innovation and people engagement, nurturing a sense of purpose and personal relationships.

The new workspace is designed for flexibility and adaptability.

It encourages movement between intimate spaces to broader areas including a café and r...