TERROIR Hobart Office | TERROIR
As the impacts of climate change are now felt in real time, the idea of sustainability in architecture is being questioned. TERROIR aim to challenge sustainability in Architecture through the concepts explored within their own office fit out in lutruwita / Hobart.
Occupying a space within an abandoned mid-century office fit out, the design is a cannibalisation and reappropriation of what was already there. This project is an experiment that challenges the paradox of ‘sustainable architecture’. This project may be small in size, but heralds a disproportionately large manifesto for a different sort of practice that is more and more urgent to embrace. Its lessons are already informing our practices larger projects in our quest to continue making places which support the interactions of people and place, but in a way that uses less resources than ever before.
The Cottage School | Taylor and Hinds Architects
The Cottage School is a unique, small, independent, secular, community primary school. It is located in Queen Street, in Kangaroo Bay. The school prioritises the environment as a critical framework for learning.
Cohabiting a series of Federation weatherboard worker’s cottages, the School has established a unique pedagogical structure which borrows heavily from the intimacy and domesticity of its setting.
A new Green Cottage ‘addition’ was conceived as a unifying element between the existing external teaching and play environments, and the domestic scale of the original cottage. A verandah forms an extension of the educational realm, for woodwork, seating, and water play. Along this covered edge, an operable facade serves as a ‘streetscape’ for displays, and encourages imaginative play at thresholds. The sensorial environment is carefully orchestrated, through subtle acoustic and lighting. The new interiors are composed through a singular, warm and calming palette, which ‘backgrounds’ the experience of learning.
The Friends’ School Redevelopment Project | Bence Mulcahy with H2o Architects
The Friends’ School Major Redevelopment Project included, a gymnasium, adaption of the WN Oats Centre, site accessibility/safety improvements, a major substation, North Block repairs and new outdoor courts.
Approaches driving the project included the establishment of precincts within the campus, small strategic interventions to improve site accessibility and safety, utilisation/adaption of existing buildings, and Quaker values, simplicity, community and environmental stewardship.
Key projects are the WN Oats Centre refurbishment and the Revell Sports Centre.
The WN Oats Centre was adapted to accommodate x7 GLAs, specialist spaces, breakouts, offices, student/staff amenities in a light, robust, flexible and engaging environment.
The Revell Centre includes a gymnasium, offices, community/student amenities and x2 GLAs. Moderated by domestic scaled additions and street level detailing, its scale and siting draws from Carr Street precedents. Setbacks and landscaping tie the building into the campus, and materials strike the balance between utility and context.
Suite Shed | alsoCAN
We retain traditional facades and streetscapes, but what about backyards?
The existing building had been a sleepout in a working backyard dotted with fruit trees. We wanted to keep this quality and this purpose.
From the outside, the result retains the same profile. Nearly all the existing structure has been kept, but now insulated and wrapped so its waterproof and warm. From the inside all the studwork, cladding and roofing remain, so it looks just like it did before with new fittings.
The new building adds no new floor area. However, we now have a larger bedroom, a refitted bathroom and a large space for living.
A critical part of the design was to make the building fully accessible. There are handrails around the outside of the rooms with sensoractivated lighting, along with more generally accessible aspects such as wheelchairaccessible benchtops, rails, a shower seat and talking kitchen appliances.
St Virgil’s College – New Year 11 and 12 Facilities | Tim Penny Architecture + Interiors Pty Ltd
The year 11 and 12 facility provides new contemporary education spaces that are anchored into the 1961 campus plan, expanding and reinventing new external spaces. It is designed to optimise learning and provide seamless contemporary pedagogy, whilst providing a community asset that includes a great place to watch footy.
St.LukesHealth Flagship Store | TERROIR
The best intentions of organisations can be betrayed by the banality of their key public interactions in their customer service centre. This critical opportunity to choreograph a set of relations with customers is often blighted by a fitout that is as unsustainable as they are uninspiring.
StLukesHealth are an extraordinary organisation, one that prides themselves on being uniquely Tasmanian with an ambitious vision for Tasmania to become the healthiest island in the world.
This dual sense distinctly Tasmanian but also healthy, safe and wellnurtured led to the concept for their new flagship store to be a gathering space formed by a giant tree hollow. Blackheart Sassafras, a most unique and recognisable Tasmanian timber, and a hollow, a natural form of refuge in our forests. A meeting point between StLukesHealth and their community, the hollow inspires imagination and talks to a healthier and poetic connection to our island state.
Skellig House | Crump Architects
In Skellig House, Crump Architects have created a dramatic shadow in the landscape that creates a harmonious blend of both treehouse and boathouse. The lightweight structure with a dark skin of Shou Sugi Ban hides in the bush on a rocky cliff looking north across the Derwent.
The name is inspired by Skellig Michael, a rocky outcrop off the Irish coast. The owners family is from the west coast of Ireland and felt a strong resemblance between this area and the wild Atlantic coast. The design creates a warm and comforting refuge in this wild southern environment, with a spectacular panoramic view.
The key challenge was to optimise an awkward and constrained suburban block. The final outcome maximises the use of the design envelope and effectively edits out the neighbours to create a lowimpact, low profile structure that uses the available space to create privacy and a sense of expanse.
Regent Street Extension | Preston Lane
Located on the roundabout of a suburban arterial road in the heart of Sandy Bay, the extension steps up the slope of the corner site as it opens to the North enabling privacy for the occupants and distance from the noise of the road below.
Preston Lane was engaged to modernise the property to provide spaces for a growing family currently residing in Singapore. The extension included the revitalisation of the existing character home (back to its original form) and a substantial rear extension. An existing twolevel extension was removed as part of the works to reveal the original dwelling and to enable a better relationship between the internal and external spaces within the new works.
A new entry has been created off Alexander Street, providing greater connection to the homes new Living spaces housed within the new works, whilst a subtle side entry from Regent Street has been maintained.
River’s Edge Building, University of Tasmania | Wardle
Rivers Edge is a learning, teaching and research building located at the edge of the North Esk River /lakekeller in the University of Tasmanias Inveresk Precinct. Providing flexible, collaborative teaching and research spaces for students and staff from Humanities, Social Sciences, Law and Business disciplines. Its a contemporary learning environment where communities of students and staff gather for meaningful exchange.
The ground floor is organised around a series of brickpods, 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.
Rivers Edge celebrates its position within a postindustrial 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 endoflife impact.
Patrick Street | Andrew Campbell and Georgina Russell
The Patrick Street project involved a series of interventions in a c.1880 heritage listed terrace house in Hobart. The brief to contain the program within the existing envelope prompted a design approach of discrete ‘moves’ that sought to unlock the plan and provide broad functional amenity seemingly by doing as little as possible. These moves involved the reconciliation of routes and rooms, introducing new insertions designed as buildings in miniature, and functional double moves where a single design move responds to more than one functional requirement. Material selections were informed by the heritage response, with new and modified openings and thresholds constructed from steel serving as a contemporary language counterpoint to the existing masonry and timer fabric. The detailing of the new insertions was approached as an exercise in the use of plywood, standard timber sections and off-the-shelf mouldings as a method for developing a distinct language across the scheme.
