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UTAS University Inveresk Campus

The University of Tasmania has invested in a major regeneration of its Inveresk Campus in Launceston. The purpose being to fully consolidate its Launceston campuses into one central one, which was a disused railway workshop, to increase the quality of experience for its student and staff but to connect with the broader Launceston community.
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  • TRADITIONAL OWNERS & ONGOING CUSTODIANS OF THE LAND Palawa / Muwinina
  • ClIENT University of Tasmania
  • LOCATION Inveresk, Tasmania
  • YEAR 2019

The Shed

The Shed is the new home for health, medicine and science education and research for the University of Tasmania. The precinct forms a new interface between the city of Launceston and the Inveresk University Precinct.
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The landscape then moves up series of pleated like landscape terraces and ramps which support the bridge over the river. The terraces as well as the entire landscape is of local and indigenous plants, furthering the biodiversity health of the town and campus.
Sport is an integral part of the building’s educational program, and a running track extends from the interior to the exterior at the front, continuing beneath the bridge to create an additional space for exercise.
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Library

This precinct includes the new campus Library, the Rivers Edge building and their connective landscape and the Riawunna Cultural Garden.
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Native grasses, materials and stone were used to ground the building in “country”.

The Riverside Edge precinct, is the home of the important Riawunna Center for Education, supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and staff. The landscape celebrates the diversity of flora form around Tasmania, and makes the key geological and landscape units of the island in the pavement.

Riawunna Cultural Garden

The Riawunna Cultural Garden was an extension of the scope for ASPECT Studios, adding to the landscape areas surrounding the Rivers Edge precinct buildings at the UTAS Inveresk campus.
The design identified several opportunities for involvement by the Riawunna team and local Aboriginal artists to embed cultural identity to the project, including the ritual of relocating ashes from the existing smoke pit on campus and the inclusion of new nation stones within the garden.
Key portions of the project were set aside to be designed in partnership with local indigenous artists, which included custom shelter, seating, privacy panels the firepit and surrounds. Undertaking a design process that has been in close and constant collaboration with two Palawa artists from Launceston has ensured that the outcome is sensitive and responsive to the local conditions and culture, as well as providing benefits for community.
  • SCOPE Urban Design Framework
    Consultation
  • TEAM Wardle Architects
    JWA
    T3D Studios
    Lynne Spotswood
    Genie Battese