The design principles focused on a consistent hardscape treatment to the Blue Care entry walls across multiple sites. However, the softscape treatments and plant palette were determined on a site-specific level to ensure plants suited to the site’s context and climatic conditions were used. Each site by nature was designed differently, but the overarching hardscape palette was retained to create a consistent treatment across the sites.
Prior to the commencement of the design process for each Blue Care site entry statement, a communication flow diagram and contact list was developed to outline the communication process and effectively manage all stakeholders and parties involved. Stakeholder engagement was undertaken at each site to ensure a level of shared understanding was reached and importance was placed on communication with each facility manager as to ensure all parties were involved and disruptions to the daily lives of residents and staff during construction was minimised.