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When a project is complex — custom geometry, repeat installations, tight compliance requirements — the distance between a designer’s intent and what actually gets built can be significant. Shop drawings that don’t anticipate fabrication constraints. Renders that look right on screen but create problems on site. Documentation that leaves too much to interpretation.
CASF’s Design Solutions Service exists to close that gap. For architects and interior designers specifying Corian® Solid Surface, it provides shop drawings, photorealistic renders, and fabrication-ready documentation — prepared by CASF’s technical team at no charge, as part of the specification process.
The Boollam Boollam Aged Care Centre is one of the clearest demonstrations of what that service delivers in practice.
ClarkeHopkinsClarke Architects were responsible for approximately 140 custom ensuite vanities and 20 integrated hand wash basins for the new 150-bed Monash Health facility in Cheltenham. The brief demanded AS1428.1-compliant accessible bathrooms, infection control performance to clinical governance standard, and a solution that could be fabricated and installed consistently at scale.
The design team specified a Corian® vanity with a fully integrated basin and storage in Glacier White — a single seamless unit with no junction between basin and bench, and a matte, low-reflectivity finish chosen specifically for residents with dementia or cognitive conditions.
It was an ambitious specification. Getting it right once would have been an achievement. Getting it right 150 times required a different approach.
CASF was engaged during detailed design — before documentation was finalised — to test whether the design intent could be practically realised at the required scale.
The process started with shop drawings: detailed fabrication drawings prepared by CASF’s technical team that translated the design intent into something a fabricator could build from. These drawings allowed the design team to review construction methodology, confirm accessibility clearances, and identify anything that needed refinement before production.
From there, the team moved to a full-scale prototype, installed in an off-site mock-up of a typical bedroom and ensuite. Tap placement was adjusted. Mounting methods were refined. Splash control was tested against the actual installed unit. Infection control compliance was verified in three dimensions, not on paper.
By the time the project went into production, the hard questions had already been answered. One hundred and fifty units, fabricated to a tight brief, consistently.
The value of early technical engagement isn’t unique to aged care or large-scale projects. It applies any time the gap between design intent and fabrication outcome carries risk — which is most of the time when Corian® is being used for something other than a standard benchtop.
Thermoformed elements. Integrated basins. Seamless feature walls. Reception counters with complex geometry. These are the applications where Corian® performs best, and where the distance between a concept and a buildable outcome is widest.
CASF’s Design Solutions Service is structured to cover that distance. Shop drawings produced by CASF’s technical team give fabricators exactly what they need. Photorealistic renders let designers and clients confirm the outcome before anything is cut. Fabrication-ready documentation means the project moves from design to production without the back-and-forth that adds time and risk.
And it’s provided at no charge — because helping architects and designers get the specification right is how CASF does its best work.
If you’re working on a project where Corian® is part of the specification — or where you’re still deciding whether it should be — CASF’s Design Solutions Service is the starting point.
Corian® Design has launched Nature in Motion, its 2026 Colour Collection — a new palette of Corian® Solid Surface aesthetics that brings the warmth, movement, and tonal depth of natural materials into the spaces where they’re needed most.
The collection centres on a new Travertine aesthetic — one of the most sought-after looks in contemporary interiors, and one that natural stone often makes difficult to fully realise. Corian® Solid Surface removes those constraints. The same layered depth and tonal variation, extended seamlessly across vertical surfaces, curved geometries, integrated elements, and high-use environments that stone simply can’t accommodate.
Corian® Travertine Firenze
Beyond travertine, the broader palette introduces flowing patterns, layered neutrals, and rich brown and mocha tones — materials that bring a sense of ease and warmth to interior spaces without sacrificing the performance commercial projects demand.
For designers working across hospitality, healthcare, education, and food service environments, the collection offers a way to introduce natural warmth into spaces that have historically required a compromise between aesthetics and practicality.
The full Nature in Motion collection is shown above.
CASF will be introducing a curated selection of these colours – not all shown will be available in Australia.
Introducing Corian® Quarry — An Australian Exclusive
Alongside the 2026 Colour Collection, CASF is making available Corian® Quarry — a cool, mid-tone grey with a fine mineral speckle that draws its character from raw, natural stone.
Quarry was originally developed as a custom colour for the Canberra Centre redevelopment, where it was colour-matched to exposed concrete and used to clad the shopping centre’s columns and spandrel panels. The result was so well received that the client extended the colour to a second area of the building.
Available exclusively through CASF as a limited release colour, Quarry suits commercial interiors where a refined neutral with quiet depth is called for.
Corian® Quarry
Coming to Australia
Samples and stock for the 2026 Colour Collection and Corian® Quarry are expected to be available within the next couple of months. Watch this space for announcements.
Be First to Receive Samples
Register your interest and we’ll deliver samples to you as soon as the new Corian® Colours are available in Australia.
When you specify a surface for a hospital environment, you’re not just making a design decision. You’re making a decision you’ll need to defend — to an infection control officer, a clinical procurement team, a facility manager, and sometimes a building assessor.
The question is always the same: why this material?
For architects and designers who’ve specified Corian® Solid Surface in hospital environments, the answer is straightforward. Not because Corian® looks good — though it does — but because the technical case is built in.
Clinical environments place demands on surfaces that most materials aren’t designed to meet. The requirements aren’t complicated, but they’re non-negotiable:
No harbourage points. Hospital-acquired infections are a genuine patient safety risk. Any surface with grout lines, joins, or micro-pores creates a place where pathogens can harbour and resist cleaning. Corian® is non-porous and can be fabricated seamlessly — no joins, no grout, no gaps.
Compatibility with hospital-grade cleaning. Clinical wards and theatres are cleaned with disinfectants that would degrade most surfaces over time. Corian® is formulated to withstand intensive cleaning regimes, including hospital-grade chemical disinfection, without surface breakdown or discolouration.
Repairability without replacement. In a hospital, a damaged surface can’t wait weeks for replacement. With Corian®, scratches and surface damage can be repaired on-site — sanded back, refinished, and returned to service without removing the surface or disrupting the clinical area.
Zero silica. Corian® has been silica-free since 1967. In an environment where staff safety matters as much as patient safety, this is a specification credential worth having on record.
DDA compliance. Hospital environments require accessible design as standard. Custom DDA-compliant washplane and vanity configurations are part of what we fabricate and document through our Design Solutions Service.
The most common barrier we hear from architects specifying for healthcare isn’t doubt about the material — it’s uncertainty about the documentation.
“I know Corian® is right for this brief. But I need something I can hand to the infection control officer.”
That’s what our technical data sheets, certification credentials, and sector-specific specification guides are built for. Every hospital brief we support through our Design Solutions Service includes full shop drawings, renders, and technical documentation — so you’re not just specifying a surface, you’re specifying a surface with a paper trail.
St Vincents Private Hospital | Corian® used in the operating theatre wall cladding.
For complex hospital projects — multi-section washplanes, DDA-compliant vanities across multiple zones, custom colour matching across a large facility — the technical coordination burden can be significant.
Our Design Solutions Service removes that burden at no cost to you. Send us your plans. We provide:
It’s designed specifically for the kind of brief that hospital projects generate — complex, high-scrutiny, with no room for spec errors.
Corian® has been specified in hospitals, medical fitouts, and clinical environments across Australia for decades. The track record is there. The technical data is there — and our team is ready to put it in front of whoever needs it on your project.
If you’re working on a hospital or clinical brief and want to talk through how Corian® can meet your specification requirements, our team is ready to help.
Edition 1 of the Corian® Design Awards 2025 is now closed.
We’re excited to reveal the Finalists from the first edition of the Corian® Design Awards 2025!
The calibre of entries was truly impressive, reflecting an incredible level of creativity and skill. We extend our congratulations to the finalist, recognised for their exceptional work in both the Commercial and Residential categories.
EDITION 1 COMMERCIAL FINALISTS
EDITION 1 RESIDENTIAL FINALISTS
Missed out?
Edition 2 is now open and accepting entries until 31st October 2025. Don’t miss your chance to win a visit to the Corian® manufacturing plant in Buffalo, NY.
