Architectural Design by LM2A architects, Landscape design by Super Natural with Alice Ford.
Scales of Care
Reimagining Where We Live design competition, 2024
As part of the Super Natural environmental design team with LM2A Architects, Alice contributed to Scales of Care, awarded First Place (Urban Metro Category) in the Australian Government’s Reimagining Where We Live design competition.
The competition brief invited designers to test the National Aged Care Design Principles and Guidelines through proposals for future-focused aged care environments.
Rather than treating the four design principles as separate or hierarchical objectives, Scales of Care reorganised them radially — holding each principle in cyclical relation to each other. Care was framed not as a sole human service delivered within a building, but as a continuous system between individuals, community, and environment.
Alice’s contribution centred on diagramming the relational structure of care. Her input focused on the introduced positions of “me” and “you” inspired by the brief — prompting through her painted diagrams to anyone viewing the proposal to include themselves in the position of ‘carer’ or ‘cared for’ with symbolic a blue spectrum.
The jury described the proposal as:
“An exceptional proposition successfully designed as a dynamic connection between the individual and the community … a productive relationship between the practice of care and the environment in which it takes place … a positive feedback loop fostered between the resident and the world around them.”
Further information can be found via the Reimagining Where We Live Competition.
An interconnected relationship between outside and inside, carer (dark blue) and cared for (light blue) with other community members (a blue spectrum) both carer' and cared for, Scales of Care by LM2A Architects and Super Natural studio with Alice Ford.
2024/05/17 Reimagining Where We Live
CATALOGUE : Archived
LOCATION : Noongar Boodjar, Western Australia
WITH : LM2A Architects and Super Natural Studio
this project is dedicated to my elders Carol, Jenny, Peter and Frieda