Health and Wellness

Health and wellness expertise

We believe genuine collaboration is imperative to the delivery of best practice health and wellness design outcomes and adopt a holistic approach to ensure that each project benefits from the skills and expertise of the wider project team.

Monash Children's Hospital VIC

Westmead Hospital NSW

From innovative health and wellness spaces to compassionate seniors’ living communities, transformative educational settings, inclusive childcare facilities, and empowering projects for individuals with disabilities, we craft environments that truly make a difference.

Our thoughtful approach harmonises nature with human-centered design principles, fostering sustainable and biodiverse spaces that inspire, rejuvenate, and promote inclusivity.

This includes biophilic and universal design principles embedded into our projects, creating sanctuaries within urban hospital and healthcare settings. We understand the critical role the built environment and landscape play in the wellbeing of healthcare consumers, staff, and families.

In every project, our goal is to design and plan spaces that enhance, enable, and support quality of life.

In our approach to health and wellness projects, we consistently advocate for the wellbeing of all users – patients, visitors, staff, students, administrators, and other healthcare precinct roles. We do this while addressing client, operator and construction requirements and supporting the operational as well as architectural complexities of creating healing and aesthetically pleasing public spaces.

From planning precincts to detailed design scale, championing our design philosophy for exceptional public spaces and gardens, we ensure that places we create offer inviting, welcoming, comfortable, inclusive and intuitive experiences.

Westmead hospital - health and wellbeing

Westmead Hospital, NSW

We understand the importance of user experience and each place we create contributes to the lasting impressions of the healthcare setting, at all scales.

We understand at detail scale the importance of a seamless indoor/outdoor experience, and at precinct scale, creating generous public domain areas.

At neighbourhood scale, we consider the relationship with broader character and context, connections to local movement networks and blue green corridors.

Very special kids hospice - health and wellbeing

Royal Adelaide Hospital, SA

We welcome a co-design methodology for actively engaging with a broad range of people in the design of healthcare environments. Our team have extensive experience in collaborating with design consultants, end users and service providers to embed collective experience into design solutions.

Our experience and research illustrate that engagement with stakeholders in this way ensures the design outcomes are well informed and fit for purpose.

Royal adelaide hospital - public domain advoacy - health and wellness

Royal Adelaide Hospital, SA

We support, defend and manage the evolution of the public domain design throughout the project from initial master planning through to construction.

By putting users first, we ensure healthcare settings have a cohesive approach, meet functional requirements, and provide an intuitive wayfinding and experiential richness.

Royal Adelaide Hospital SA

Our work on multiple large scale government projects requires that we familiarise ourselves and adhere to procedures relating to both the technical work and governance procedures.

Our certified Quality Management System conforms to Australian and International Standards. We are familiar with navigating confidentiality, declaration, management of conflicts of interest, multi layered project scopes and complex reporting requirements.

Westmead hospital - co-design - health and wellbeing

Westmead Hospital, NSW

Through our established contacts built up over multiple projects, we collaborate with leading health practitioners, occupational therapists and clinical consultants, who provide us a link between clinical operations and models of care, client and operational staff expectations and our design process.

Very special kids hospice - multidisciplinary team

Very Special Kids Hospice, VIC

Tract is a specialist in working within multidisciplinary team environments. Our unique skill and personnel structure ensures we are proactive in the inclusion of client and stakeholders throughout planning and design processes.

Our team is both passionate and professional, determined to collaborate in the design process by regularly workshopping and ensuring project ownership at all levels. We have a wealth of experience across an extensive portfolio of health projects over many years, working with multidisciplinary consultant teams.

Royal adelaide hospital - respecting culture - health and wellbeing

Westmead Hospital, NSW

Our healthcare projects focus on providing culturally welcoming, safe and connected spaces to support Aboriginal people and their community when accessing healthcare and employment.

In particular, utilising collaborative design workshops which have a focus on Country allows a comprehensive design founded in appreciation and respect for place and culture.

To support this, Tract has commenced a formal reconciliation journey through the implementation of a Reconciliation Action Plan which is endorsed by Reconciliation Australia.

Ozanam house - health and wellbeing - town planning

Ozanam House, VIC

Our involvement with major projects has built an extensive understanding of key requirements and a knowledgeable response to user groups’ expectations and needs.

To support this, Tract has access to a wide range of tools and techniques for engagement, including TractConnect, our in-house engagement service which can be augmented to assist in this process.