Tanja Taglietti's moving tribute to her father Enrico

Her father, famed Canberra architect Enrico Taglietti, who designed the health centre building, had suffered from macular degeneration, causing vision loss, for a decade before his death in May 2019.

"The only colour he could really pick and know what colour it was, was yellow," she said, on Friday. "So we ended up getting him a yellow kettle, a yellow toaster, yellow, yellow, yellow. So yellow was the colour."

The simple, stunning screen has been installed in the waiting room for the new inner-north nurse walk-in centre which is being created in the renovated building which her father designed in 1980.

Tanja's work is a letter to her father, referencing his voids and cut-outs, but, also giving a sense of calm to people entering the waiting room. The piece is called Breathing Space.

"You can be here and actually breathe," she said. "There's a space to be calm and a space to see-through. That was my hope, anyway."

The artwork was funded by the local charity, the Canberra Hospital Foundation, to add a welcoming touch to the walk-in centre, which is expected to open in Dickson later this month.

Italian-born Enrico Taglietti became a favoured son of his adopted home Canberra, designing many homes and public spaces including schools (Giralang, Flynn, Latham and Gowrie primary schools), the Woden Youth Centre, the White Eagle Club and Holt village.

Tanja's artwork also makes it possible to stand in the health centre and look through across to the Dickson Library, which her father also designed.

She said a "perfect storm of people" led to the creation of the piece.

"One, I was asked to do [the work], two dad designed [the building], three the architects that were engaged to do the intervention on the building, dad worked with them, so I knew them. And the last piece in the puzzle were the builders selected, because I know the project manager because he'd worked on another one of dad's. You had all of us who knew dad's work and wanted to do the best job possible."

Projection Coordination is the building firm working on the renovation of the health centre, senior project manager Max Urack passionate about staying true to the design intent of Enrico Taglietti. "I met and worked with Enrico and he was a true visionary," Mr Urack said.

Tanja, who also creates jewellery and other artwork, said she wanted the piece to be part of the building and unobtrusive.She also wanted to reference her father's love of wood in the piece, its grain visible through the yellow.

"I'm ecstatic that it looks like something that was meant to be there, it wasn't just added on," she said.

She was proud of the work and happy to be contributing to the character of Dickson.

"This is a real community here, there is everybody. It's a microcosm of the world in Dickson," Tanja said.