River’s Edge Building, University of Tasmania | Wardle

River’s Edge is a learning, teaching and research building located at the edge of the North Esk River /lakekeller in the University of Tasmania’s Inveresk Precinct. Providing flexible, collaborative teaching and research spaces for students and staff from Humanities, Social Sciences, Law and Business disciplines. It’s a contemporary learning environment where communities of students and staff gather for meaningful exchange.

The ground floor is organised around a series of brick–pods, located at the edges of a lively central atrium designed to bring the community together. Spaces between them frame viewing portals out to the surrounding landscape.

River’s Edge celebrates its position within a post–industrial site with references to structural expression and robust materials. The building adapts and optimises industrial vocabulary for enhanced solar orientation and thermal performance, concepts of Country are appropriately embedded in the design and consideration has successfully targeted embodied carbon reductions in construction, operation, and end–of–life impact.