WAF World Architecture Festival Awards 2017

The Best Use of Colour Prize, supported by Eastman, was scooped up by Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects for the Fitzroy Crossing Renal Hostel in Australia, a project where judges found the use of colour to be “sensitive, elegant and well balanced.”
The building provides a long term accommodation facility for Aboriginal people from outlaying communities receiving renal dialysis. The aim of the centre is to humanely support the needs of the residents, who may be self sufficient and independent, or may have a carer living with them. The architecture facilitates a safe environment to wander and gather with occupants, family, friends and the community. Light is filtered through the coloured screens that run along the side of the structure. Judges praised the practice for “a design that uses holistically integrated colour relative to the landscape and the local community. As the project’s main function is healing, the use of colour creates an emotional context that is deeply supportive and nurturing.”