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Re-vive, Re-use, Re-gen

Part 1 Project 2025
Blake Barton
University of Tasmania Launceston | Australia
'RE-vive, RE-use, RE-gen' is an adaptive re-use conversion of a former woollen mill’s boiler shed into a Wellness Centre. The key definition is pivotal to the design: “wellness” is not only conceived as a condition of human health, but conditions of building and place.

The proposal looks to continue the becoming of the building guided by the site’s past, with gestures to the various stages of its heritage, both pre and post colonisation. Rather than a top-down imposition of programme, the architectural interventions developed grow from the existing fabric.

The decommissioning of the woollen mill left the buildings to entropy. This process was complemented by the site’s slow reclamation by nature. Instead of denying these unplanned and contingent processes, the design builds from these logics. The flourishing of plants becoming intentional as the building transforms into a natural healing space.

Three key moments in the building’s imagined new life are elaborated. They present responses to three programmatic conditions: Pass, Sweat, & Chill. Pass focuses on transitory spaces; Sweat on a meditation greenhouse; and Chill on a mineral bath. The design of these spaces aims to facilitate strong connections between the user and the place.


Tutor(s)
Andrew Steen
2025
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