Original Thinkers Podcast
Great interviews with creative minds from the worlds of architecture, design, the environment, culture and business.
Original Thinkers Podcast
Alastair Flynn
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Designing The Forest, the University of Tasmania’s flagship Hobart campus.
This stunning project in the centre of Hobart's CBD, includes a glass forest dome, with over 3,500 plants including mature trees and a disappearing tarn.
Through the reuse of original materials and the use of low-carbon construction methods, including timber and carbon-negative Hempcrete, the Forest is Australia’s first carbon-neutral university campus.
"The university targeted a minimum carbon reduction of 30%, measured against a typical 'business as usual' benchmark building. For this project, The Forest, they achieved a bit more than 40%, and that was a driving factor behind almost all of the key decisions we made when designing."
