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Toolangi Forest Discovery Centre Design Brief: To educate the public on forests and their management as a natural resource. Design Notes: To avoid competing with the real forest outside, or the architecture, a walk-through, stylised forest was constructed from local timber to fit within the strongly geometric lines and cathedral like volume of the building. The exhibition
commences with a forest ‘clearing’ backed by theatrical
gauze and cloth borders representing the forest canopy. In the final area, harvesting of forest timbers is presented within a forest coupe. This coupe is represented by a screen of stylised trees in various stages of regrowth, at the centre of which is a ‘stag’, (a giant hollow tree), dotted with a variety of animals likely to find a haven there. Architect’s Comments: “The finely finished trees of the exhibitory are knitted into the similarly expressed heavy braced building structure reinforcing the message of both building and contents.” (Peter Pass, Architect). Acknowledgments: |
Copyright Rosemary Simons Design Pty Ltd 2003. All rights reserved