Jewish Care Anne and Eric Smorgon Active Living Centre, Victoria Club Building, Australian Architecture Images
Jewish Care Anne and Eric Smorgon Active Living Centre in Caulfield
30 Nov 2021
Architect and Interior Design: DesignInc
Location: Caulfield, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

For older people who live independently in their own homes, maintaining relationships with their community is vital. When Jewish Care engaged DesignInc Melbourne to develop their new Anne and Eric Smorgon Active Living Centre in Caulfield, Melbourne, the brief sought a ?connection centre? that would enrich the lives of their community.

Jewish Care Anne and Eric Smorgon Active Living Centre
DesignInc has responded with a building that welcomes the community for casual visits, exercise, and meeting friends. The central focus of the architecture is to forge stronger connections between people in spaces that offer a range of social and recreational activities, cultural and spiritual services, and therapies that enhance wellbeing, health and independence.
The building design celebrates the diversity of Jewish culture and its multifaceted identity through the use of woven patterns that are symbolic of people and nature. The dynamic motif features throughout the interior, reproduced at a range of scales. In contrast, the exterior has a predominantly brick palette, expressing robust materiality.

DesignInc Principal, Jane Sayers, explained the design approach, ?As we got to know our client, we learnt...