The Forestry Building
REALMstudios for the University of Tasmania with Woods Baggot
Typology:Education
Project Details
The project centres around plans for the university to move into the Hobart CBD and includes the rejuvenation of the Forestry Building - a hidden gem in an urban side street in central Hobart.
This building was originally designed in 1997 by Robert Morris-Nunn and Associates and engineered by Jim Gandy, it featured an atrium / foyer dome and housed a living growing forest.
The current scope of work encompasses a new design and adaptive reuse of the building and its forest, creating a new university space.
REALM are engaged to develop a landscape concept that was integrated with the Architecture and Interior design and recreated the cool temperate rainforest atrium.
Workstages & Skillsets
Detailed Design ….and sustainable sourcing stone pavement options… Artist involvement strategic workshops with UTAS….. Benchmarking nearby cool template forest site and BoM climate conditions….. Benchmarking climate controlled conservatories….. Floristic Study into species composition, habitat character and identification of species collection requirements, (fungi, lichen, fallen timber).