Location: Hobart, Tasmania
Architect: Woods Bagot
Design firm Woods Bagot and engineering and environmental consultant Arup are expanding the horizon lines of architecture’s influence by taking into account a building’s end-of-life for their joint project on the University of Tasmania’s Forestry Building. This was created to be deconstructed. The Forestry building is now being restored and redeveloped after the project was authorized by the City of Hobart in May 2022.
Adhesives and applied finishes are used noticeably less frequently throughout the project as a whole. This makes it possible for components to be recycled in their particular material stream or reassembled in new locations at the end of the building’s useful life.
Woods Bagot maximized the space of the ceiling structure by designing a long-spanning structural grid with a maximum span of over 17 meters. Instead of being clogged with structural columns, floorplates have spacious, adjacent areas that will enable the university to modify, alter, and rearrange pieces as pedagogy and requirements evolve.
