The design of this Headspace Centre has a central focus on play and aims to encourage young people, aged 12-18 to visit the site, meet like-minded people and socialise through the various recreational and extracurricular activities, and potentially seek private consultation from medical staff or therapists. The centre is designed to be causal in its approach, offering a fun, creative space that kids can occupy, explore or simply hangout after school or on weekends. In this way the centre aims to dissolve any preconceived notions, stigma or anxiety that typically surround children and mental health, creating an environment where everyone is welcome to and can feel comfortable discussing sensitive issues. Despite the focus on play, the centre also provides therapy spaces that offer the appropriate seriousness, expertise, privacy and facilities needed when dealing with children and mental health. The provided recreational, social, and restful spaces aim to invite young people into the site in a casual, ‘afterschool care’ model, ‘breaking the ice’ with new patients and introducing them to the sites and community while providing information about Headspace’s numerous programs. The centre’s focus on ‘play’, recreation, extracurricular activities and connection to nature, aims to offer a respite from the potentially chaotic and stressful environments of the city, school or home. The centre is fully accessible with integrated ramps across the three levels, offering varying degrees of privacy, staff supervision, social engagement, sensory stimulation and structured or unstructured activities. The site is split into public, semi-private and private zones, with the most public zones being the reception, café and play spaces adjacent to the park, and the most private zones being the elevated therapy spaces located in the North-West corner of the site. The centre is also separated into loud, highly active and stimulating zones, located to the south and quiet, private or ‘calm’ spaces located to the north. The design abstracts the arched forms of the neighbouring tramline, creating a fun, dynamic and practical building façade that sparks creativity and imagination amongst younger patients while balancing external views and privacy through discrete fencing, visual screening and vegetation. The ‘fun’ building form aims to distance itself from the ‘Institutional’ architectural language typically seen in schools and hospitals, with an emphasis on natural, ‘homely’ materials, openness and creativity, in an attempt to welcome young people to the site and provide them with a sense of ownership over the space.