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+ Wellington Children’s Hospital

Wellington, New Zealand

Our client Mark Dunajtschik donated $50M to develop a integrated interior and exterior. The whole project has
new 50 bed children’s hospital for Wellington. One of the been developed in Revit and we have used the dRofus
provisos of the donation was that his company develop system to populate the interior and provide the CCDHB
the hospital for the CCDHB carrying this right through to with extraordinarily detailed information. The hospital is
construction. Studio Design + Architecture were asked to over 3 floors and approximately 7200 sqm with 340 rooms
be part of the team for this landmark project. including the 45 bedrooms (a few double rooms) with 36
rooms with ensuite bathrooms. The other spaces are the
The process has been to design the building from the auxiliary spaces required to run the hospital. Also included
inside out working with the CCDHB nominated Health is a whole floor of outpatient services with consult rooms, a
Planner following a tight programme in order to get this café, patient waiting areas, an Oncology Unit, Day Stay unit
project built within the 2 year time frame established at the and a Child Assessment Unit. There is also a large outdoor
beginning of the project. space being developed as a patient garden area.
Our role has followed through from the very beginning This hospital is then linked to the main hospital with a link
working with the CCDHB to determine the location of the bridge which is in addition to this main hospital project, we
hospital making sure it connects logically to the rest of the are also working on the link bridge.
Wellington Hospital, working through the space planning
and brief with the Health Planner and then designing the