Royal Hobart Hospital Redevelopment | Lyons with Terroir

The largest single investment in health infrastructure in Tasmania, the RHH created an important opportunity to evolve a hospital that had existed on its current site for almost 200 years. The redevelopment balanced the challenges of allowing the original hospital to remain fully operational while simultaneously building a new hospital with some of the most advanced facilities in Australia.

At the heart of this strategy, is a new internal public street that connects the existing campus fabric and facilities with a new inpatient tower (Building K), resolving many of the functionality problems from the hospital’s organic growth. The building brings together dispersed and outmoded ward accommodation from across the campus into a new multi-level contemporary inpatient building, delivering high levels of efficiency for patients and the hospital. The primary urban design strategy transformed the previous ‘institutional’ quality of the hospital campus to a porous campus that ‘opens up’ the community.