The design for the Adelaide Pride Campus begins by separating its objectives into three distinct buildings. The smallest of the 3, the Don Dunstan Building focuses on providing spaces to capture the imagination of visitors. The primary draw is the new theatre allowing local theatrical groups a place to call home and run shows throughout the year. The radio station, JOY 94.9 will also be setting up a brand-new recording studio for Adelaide located along the North Terrace street face in Kent Town. Small businesses are also invited to rent leasable office, café, and retail space to help bring unique experiences to the site where some can open onto an internal lane aiding to the sites character.

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Next in line and named after the Feast Festival veteran, the Margie Fischer Building, houses the social hub for the APC. Several organisations will utilise this space as their new offices such as Qlife, the Queer Youth Drop In, the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Team Adelaide and of course the Feast as well. On top of this, a business hub will also be included to allow smaller groups who are just getting started to have a space to work. A café/bar can be opened out towards a large plaza and an exhibition space is also located within. As a congregation of different organisations, the design pays homage to the early competitors of the ‘ball scene’ of New York. The organisations become a mirror for the competitive houses and centre themselves on an internal street where everyone can converge and show off. The reference is carried further to the exterior where the façade screen represents abstract figures that are crowding around to watch the performance. Their even more like ball competitors with the options for artists to produce different works on shade curtains to ‘dress’ the figures.

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The Robert Hoey Building, is the third and most sensitive of the campus. Its primary purpose on the site is to capture the feeling of the watch tower, a space where the community can go to defend themselves. It is here where the clinic components of the brief are located. The design attempts to break the negative stigma of utilising sexual health services through creating a space where people want to be. First, the floors of the clinic and offices are located above the other buildings of the campus, creating a sense of privacy for those inside and creating views over the rooftops of Kent Town. Secondly, the waiting spaces feature private booth seating built into the wall to create small nooks for patients to comfortably wait and attempt to reduce any anxiety they may have about their visit. The exterior of the building is also trying to create something new by being clad in brass panels. These panels give a light shimmer to be seen across Kent Town, acting as a way-finding device to the site but also trying not to be like the drab exteriors most clinics have. The building also hosts a permanent display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt constructed in honour of those who passed away from the disease that ravaged the community and took many others with it. The large exhibition space acknowledges the traditional way of displaying the panels in a grid like pattern by displaying them on large plinths within a void space. Metal walkways then cross the space creating sound to cut through the cold silence. Above each quilt are large skylights that filter in sunlight to illuminate the space. The building takes its name as a tribute to an individual who lost their life to the disease and whose friends sewed a quilt in his memory. 

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Designed for the community first, the campus can host a multitude of events ranging from small committee meetings in the training rooms, to hosting larger events such as the Feast Opening Night party, where the annual Pride March can terminate and transition into the festivities. The plaza hosts a large brass panel that can emerge from the ground acting as a backdrop for stages to be set up for outdoor performance or for screening off the area when in need for a more intimate atmosphere against the rush of traffic on the busy street.