Baldasso Cortese was engaged to design a facility that would provide exceptional health care services for the indigenous community in the Goulburn Valley. With a flood plain limiting the land available for development, master planning was undertaken to redefine traffic movement and create a formal address for the new facility. Peaceful views of a beautiful forest reserve to the east were integrated into the design by breaking the building down into a number of parts. Colours, textures and materials create a strong visual ‘connection to the earth’. This distinctive facility is integral to the provision of superior healthcare to the local aboriginal community.

1. RUMBALARA HEALTH CLINIC Connection to the Earth

2. Set in a semi-rural environment, the contemporary design
features an external building fabric that comprises the use
of canted insitu concrete formwork walls.

3. goulburn river…

4. the site…

5. health clinic master plan…

6. dry river bed…

7. separate elements...

8. the forest...

9. views to the forest...

10. protection…

13. floor plans…
hand sketch
1 Foyer
2 Administration
3 Consulting Rooms
4 Amenities
5 Staff
6 Dental Surgeries
7 Court Yard
8 Ambulance Bay
9 Existing Building
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14. materiality
Concrete
Timber
Glass Indigenous art Timber panel

16. This 650sqm extension to the existing Rumbalara
Health Services Clinic included:
•six dental surgeries and associated dental services
•new ambulance bay and entry
•staff and administrative facilities
•reception and client waiting area

18. The surrounding landscape has been designed to
reflect the culture of the local Indigenous Yorta Yorta
and Bangaran mobs.

20. The building features embossed
Aboriginal artwork and totems.

22. The internal reception and waiting opens onto an
internal courtyard to allow light within the building core.

25. www.bcarch.net
@baldassocortese