Hospital Staff Accommodation

This project is a development of 15 town houses designed in 2004 for developer Sitzler, aimed at ameliorating the accommodation shortage in Alice Springs for hospital staff.
The long narrow site abutting the Stuart Highway contains several groups of culturally significant trees. Respect for and preservation of these trees were a major determining factor in the site layout, combined with passive solar design principles.

The site is located within the Alice Springs Heritage Precinct so the design team liaised closely with the NT Heritage Branch to ensure compliance with the Precinct's Conservation Management Plan. The town houses are recognisably modem insertions to the historic precinct, however their forms and materials are informed by, and deferential to, the heritage buildings in the precinct. These include pitched gable roofs and Zincalume corrugated steel cladding.