RSPCA Animal Care Centre O’halloran Hill, Adelaide building images, South Australia architecture
RSPCA Animal Care Centre in Adelaide
24 April 2025
Architect: Ashley Halliday Architects
Location: Ityamaiitpinna Yarta (Glenthorne National Park), O’halloran Hill, Adelaide, South Australia
Photos: Anthony Basheer
RSPCA Animal Care Centre in Adelaide, South Australia
The new Animal Care Campus at Ityamaiitpinna Yarta (Glenthorne National Park) demonstrates RSPCA’s commitment to worlds best practice animal care standards whilst creating a vibrant community destination hub. It offers a broad array of animal care and welfare education, training programs, volunteer and allied welfare support spaces, as well as fostering and adoption services.
As RSPCA are a registered charity reliant largely on donations the construction of such a large and complex campus had to be done under strict budget control. A modular steel portal frame, recurring across several of the buildings combined with the repeated gable end architectural form provided a very efficient building typology. The creases in the roofline de-industrialises the building forms and reduces the built scale or the development.
The complex and diverse brief required a broad array of animal care facilities. This is best demonstrated in the Animal Care Centre. A highly innovative, state of the art veterinary centre which simultaneously handles the needs of domestic and wildlife species in separate wings with a shared theatre zone. These wings give the RSPCA flexibility to quickly adapt during disasters such as bushfire and swing both wings into wildlife care, a key recommendation to come out of the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements.
The new campus has a focus on creating opportunities for public education and training spaces. Inviting the public to participate in a range of activities in order to provide preventative animal welfare services and minimise the number of animals coming into their care.
RSPCA Animal Care Centre in Adelaide, South Australia – Building Information
Architect: Ashley Halliday Architects – https://ashleyhalliday.com/
Project size: 5700 sqm
Completion date: 2024
Photographer: Anthony Basheer
RSPCA Animal Care Centre, O’halloran Hill, Adelaide building images / information received 240425
Location: Ityamaiitpinna Yarta – Glenthorne National Park, O’halloran Hill, Adelaide, South Australia.
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