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forestry headquarters 1998
Melville St, Hobart, Tasmania
The project recycled two existing heritage listed 1930s warehouses and
extended these with a series of new structures to give a new office
development with a total floor area of 6,000 sq m. The centrepiece of
the new building is a 22 m diameter timber and steel framed glass dome,
which covers a new natural urban forest with Tasmanian native trees up
to 10m high replanted to replicate their natural ecosystem. This space
evokes what is real to the foresters in the bush, as well as creating a
new internal environment with what is regarded as the most innovative
structure constructed in Tasmania in the past 50 years.
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The recycling produced a very innovative building which was very cost
effective against traditional new office environments, providing for
Forestry Tasmania with a reduced overall leasing arrangement
significantly below what they were already expending, and with the new
dome and its forest provided gratis as part of the overall lease.
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