Aged Care Architects in Melbourne

Aged-care architecture is judged by the people who live in it, every day, at every ability level. The practice knows the sector from the inside: delivered aged-care projects sit in its history alongside 235+ community and social-housing dwellings across Victoria, deep ageing-in-place design work for private homes, and building-science rigour on comfort, light and air that matters more in care settings than anywhere.

CARE, UNDERSTOOD FROM THE INSIDE

Registered architect Barbara Yerondais FRAIA leads the work on fixed fees, and enquiries from operators are welcome.

35+

YEARS

400+

PROJECTS

59+

HERITAGE APPROVALS

STRAIGHT ANSWERS

Where our record
actually sits

Straight answers first: the practice has delivered projects in the aged-care sector, and its wider record runs to community housing at precinct scale, including the redevelopment of a former aged-care site in Wangaratta into thirteen community dwellings, alongside extensive ageing-in-place design for private homes. Operators planning facilities get that delivery record, design habits built around residents' privacy, light and independence, and frank scoping at feasibility about where specialist sector consultants join the team.

THE FAMILY LANE

Designing for ageing
without the facility

For many families the better answer is not a facility at all. The same design knowledge that serves care settings, level thresholds, sightlines, bathrooms that work at every mobility level, light and warmth where people actually spend their days, now goes mostly into homes: a granny flat for a parent who wants closeness without dependence, a family home adjusted so its owners stay in it for the decades ahead, or a renovation that makes room for an elderly parent moving in. If that is the decision your family is circling, those pages, and the feasibility session, are built for it.

Planning care accommodation or ageing-in-place housing?

Book a feasibility session and scope it properly: capability, consultants and program together.

BOOK A FEASIBILITY SESSION

COMMON QUESTIONS

Aged-care questions,
answered honestly

Do you design for ageing in place as well as facilities?

Yes, and it is a growing share of the brief: private homes redesigned for decades of changing mobility, from level thresholds to future-lift provision, drawing on our livable-housing design work.

We are weighing residential care against keeping a parent at home. Can design change that decision?

Often, yes. A granny flat, or a home adjusted for changing mobility, can deliver closeness, safety and independence at once, and a feasibility session puts real scopes and timelines against both paths so the family decides with its eyes open.

What does design for this sector cost?

Fees are fixed per project and scoped at feasibility, alongside a frank conversation about project scale and the consultant team the brief needs.

START THE CONVERSATION

The first step
never changes

A full one-hour feasibility session with Barbara, concept yours to keep, no obligation. Ageing-in-place works best designed before it is urgent; the best time to plan the accessible decade is the one before it.

Start the Conversation

Every project begins with a deep inquiry into site, heritage, and vision. Let’s discuss the strategic potential of your next work.

SCHEDULE A FEASIBILITY SESSION →

A PRELIMINARY CONSULTATION TO EVALUATE HERITAGE CONSTRAINTS, SITE POTENTIAL, AND PROJECT FEASIBILITY.