UTAS Institute for Marine & Antarctic Studies – John Wardle Architects + Terroir, in Association
Project summary
Located on Princes Wharf No 2 in Sullivan’s Cove, the new building for the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) stands proud as a genuine contribution to the civic and economic life of the state capital. Forty percent of Australia’s marine science research is undertaken in Tasmania and much of this state’s considerable strength in marine and Antarctic science is now located in this building. This represents a centre of excellence in the study of the Southern Ocean on a local, national and international level. IMAS has been designed as a shed, but it is a shed with a difference. The building adopts the extruded gable roof form; it has been lifted off the cove floor so that the ground level is made transparent. This reveals the activity of researchers and students to the public and clearly states the purpose of the building. The shed form is sliced open on the western end to again reveal activity and express the continuous roof and wall form that wraps the functions at upper levels. A folded roof form combines with the oblique angle of the slice to open up this end towards Salamanca Place.
Construction
John Holland Fairbrother Joint Venture Pty Ltd – managing contractor
Consultants
Gary Baird – project manager
Philip Webb – project manager
Clinton Mead – construction manager
Michael King – project director
Kate Rawlinson – design manager
Marshall Day – acoustic consultant
Aquenta – cost consultant
Brian Griffin – laboratory planning
Gandy and Roberts – structural and civic engineering
Umow Lai & Associates – ESD and building services
Ireneinc Planning – planner
Leigh Woolley – site development planning
Inhabit – facade engineering
Davis Langdon – OHS and design risk consultant
Neil Walls Consulting – AQUIS certifier
Bryce Raworth – heritage consultant
Lee Tyers & Associates – building surveyor coordinating engineers and risk management