14-16 GRIEVE STREET, MACLEOD

Macleod Booboop 2020-2023
Collaboration: KTA
Construction: Building Engineering and Conka Landscapes
Photos: Tim Allen

14-16 Grieve Street is a new family care facility. With delicately-balanced indigenous shrubs, rockeries, sand and water, the garden provides a unique therapeutic backdrop to this homely residence. This facility represents a significant new approach to family counselling in a ‘home-from-home’ setting. For such intimate reconnections, the therapy of nature was critical, drawing on the millennial-old wisdom and natural connections of First Nations Peoples. Working with Uncle Robbie, a safe natural playspace was designed that would give parents the comfort to ‘let go’ of their children, and encourage them to explore a rich variety of plants, rocks, water, wood and sand, with the kind of freedom that inspires imagination and restores resilience.