DiMH 2021 AWARDS International Project of the Year New-Build Award
An interior shot of the new Orygen and PYH youth mental health facility, in Parkville, Victoria, in Australia.
shaping the design, layout, look, and feel’. There are 10 new wards in three new buildings, an entrance building, a central building, and a realignment of the hospital boundaries.
International Project of the Year, New-Build Award
The winner of the first ever DiMHN International Project of the Year New-Build Award was the Orygen Clinic team, for the new Orygen and PYH youth mental health facility, in Parkville, Victoria, in Australia – purpose-built to accommodate Orygen – a ‘cutting-edge’ research, policy development, training, education, and innovative clinical services organisation, and Orygen Youth Health (OYH) – a specialised mental health clinic with an integrated training/communications programme for those aged 15-25. It was designed by architects, Billard Leece Partnership. Orygen’s siting is described as ‘a rare combination of an inner-city urban location in a natural bush setting’. A series of pavilions are ‘shaped’ around a central courtyard. An established apple bark tree – ‘a symbol of resilience, strength, and agility’ – grounds the site, and ‘forms the heart of an extraordinary bushland environment’.
Biophilic design
Biophilic design is expressed throughout the three-storey building, which comprises offices, consulting suites, training spaces, outdoor decks, and a café. Expansive, well- landscaped outdoor decks form transitional spaces that tier down a sloped site. Multiple access points enable young people, families, and staff, to easily have consultation sessions outdoors, while an open plan approach allows users a choice of environment and flexibility to move, ‘dissolving departmental boundaries’. The award was received by Clive Stone of the DiMHN on behalf of the Orygen Clinic, since its staff could not attend the awards in person.
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Art Installation of the Year The winner of the Art Installation of the Year Award was Great Ormond Street Arts, the arts programme at London’s Great Ormond Steet Hospital, for the ‘Oh My GOSH…You’re Wellcome Kitten’ project. Here, 15 young people and multiple nurses from the hospital’s Mildred Creek Unit worked together for six months with artist, ‘the Vacuum Cleaner’, Muf Art/ Architecture, and GOSH Arts, to explore questions including: ‘If young people with significant mental health challenges are supported to collaborate on what their care could be like, what happens?’, and ‘What if these young people create the boundaries for making art, share their wellbeing wants and needs, and become professional designers?’
Studio space created
The group created a studio at GOSH, and, during weekly workshops there, and trips outside the hospital, answered a series of questions, and ‘mapped out what the perfect mental health environment looked like’. GOSH Arts explained: “Answering the
questions helped them imagine what kind of environments, activities, and support, they would design to make themselves feel more positive, and less stressed, and make their journey both at GOSH and at home more manageable. The group used cardboard, clay, performance, soap, tin foil, the nurses’ bodies, orchids, sheepskin, and a generous helping of silliness, to understand what they wanted and needed from a healthcare environment, and the people who care for them there.”
A body of research
The body of research created, which includes handmade objects and personal writing, has gone on to inform the creation of a new artwork, ‘Oh My GOSH you’re
Wellcome...Kitten’, now on display in the Wellcome Collection’s permanent exhibition, ‘Being Human’. GOSH’s Health Care Planning team has also used the research to support the redevelopment of a new CAMHS unit. The entrants said: “This project gave a public voice to young people experiencing significant mental health challenges, and allowed them to
Clinical Team of the Year Award
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