UTas Forestry Building wins WAFX awardFriday 26 Jul 2024
The WAFX award recognises the world’s most forward-looking architectural concepts, presented to future projects that identify key challenges that architects will need to address in the coming years. Winners have been selected for their demonstration of excellence in addressing the issues facing architecture, society and the planet more broadly. Designed by Woods Bagot, the University of Tasmania Forestry Building has won the WAFX award in the Building Technology category, demonstrating cutting-edge design solutions to issues of climate change and community resilience. “We strived to create a campus – not a building – through a masterplan that features a collection of diverse and rich interstitial spaces to meet the disparate needs of the university,” says Woods Bagot Director, Bruno Mendes, who leads the project. “Working with ‘found conditions’, we have strived to emphasise the existing and let that drive the conceptual direction of the new.” “In designing this campus, we’ve considered how it will endure and evolve over time to respond to the ever-changing landscape of learning and teaching spaces,” continues Mendes. “To cater for this, we have created a large, free-spanning waffle timber structure to allow for spaces to flex and adapt. Partitions can be removed and modular furniture systems can be reconfigured to meet changing needs and ensure the building’s ongoing relevance and adaptability.” As an example of mass timber construction, adaptive reuse, and the largest commercial use of hempcrete in Australia, the new campus combines a number of innovative and experimental approaches to resilient and sustainable design while restoring and reviving an iconic piece of local heritage. More >> Source and image credit: Woods Bagot | ||
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