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Set within the Lifesciences Precinct at the University of Tasmania's Sandy Bay campus, the UTAS Glass House is a PC2/QC2 research facility, certified to Physical Containment Level 2 and Quarantine Containment Level 2. A laboratory sits alongside dedicated growth chambers, giving plant researchers a tightly controlled environment to work in.
The building keeps its form deliberately simple, a single level shaped to draw in as much natural light and internal volume as the brief allows. A modulated superstructure is arrayed the length of the plan and repeated as a module, so the structure reads as fine rather than heavy and the glazing integrates cleanly into the frame.
Architecture by Preston Lane Architects. Structural engineering by Gandy and Roberts. Services engineering by ASC Engineers. Photography by Adam Gibson.
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- Client: University of Tasmania
- Building Levels: 1
- Completion Date: 2018
- Photographer: Adam Gibson
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