Jennifer Addison
Associate, DIA
BDes(Hons)
“I'm passionate about best practice design principles for universal design, enabling dignity for all users.”
Jen’s a Senior Interior Designer in our practice and an influential design lead in our Seniors Living & Care team. Her broad experience spans healthcare, hospitality, community, education and seniors projects including St John of God Maternity, Bendigo Hospital, Alfred Trauma Unit, Canterbury Place of Worship, Latrobe Special Developmental School, and Kingston Centre Residential Aged Care. She works closely with a broad range of private and public health providers.
Informed, empathetic and impact focused, Jen’s highly regarded by colleagues and clients for her design development expertise, best practice universal design, and ability to translate highly detailed briefs into enriching interior spaces through themes, colour, texture and materiality that resonate. She’s a powerful advocate for sustainable, biophilic design that nurtures human and nature connection, lift mood, and reduces energy use and waste. Jen is a member of the Design Institute of Australia and one of CHC’s non-Indigenous First Nations Design leads, working to embed Designing with Country principles into our projects.

Her specialist knowledge includes healthcare design, seniors living and care, livable housing standards, residential aged care design standards, and learning directly from organisations such as Dementia Australia. Jen’s passion for learning and her generous leadership style make her a engaging mentor. “I bring specialist knowledge of design for ageing to CHC’s team and projects,” she says. “I see my role as supporting colleagues to learn, grow and follow their own interests and design journey within interiors, seniors, and healthcare design.”
Selected Work
The Bays Aged Care
The Bays will provide a wider range of living choices for individual seniors and couples. It will provide a premium service that does not currently existing in this area, reducing the distance people need to travel for care or allowing them to stay in the same area as part of their community.
Baptcare Wattlegrove
Baptcare’s integrated living community will deliver a wide range of senior living options for truly transgenerational community.