The St Lukes Building | TERROIR

St.LukesHealth’s new Launceston headquarters is an expression of their vision for Tasmania to be “the healthiest island in the world”, and is the most sustainable and carbon positive office development in Tasmania.

The retained former industrial buildings attenuate the development to a pedestrian scale at street level. The existing structures are a statement regarding the fundamental importance of re-using what’s possible in any new project.

At the urban scale, the building is a simple form conducive to its unique mass timber construction system. A landscaped “outdoor room” to the upper levels connects to the broader landscape around Launceston.

At only half the carbon of a typical multi-story building, the building makes a significant reduction in construction related carbon emissions. Remarkably, the volume of timber utilised took less than 6 hours of time to grow the timber, if it were grown in an area equal to that of Tasmania’s managed forests.