Stuart Muir Wilson Community Ecology Proposal

Community Ecology by Stuart Muir Wilson

‘Community Ecology’, by fourth year Master of Architecture [2011] student Stuart Muir Wilson, also proposed an integrated approach to addressing the recommendations of the ‘Hobart: A City with People in Mind’ report through intertwining ecology, functional transport and place-making within the heart of the CBD. The project intends to leverage the established sense of community at the Melville Street CBD Farmers Market through a series of community buildings, apartments and small commercial produce outlets to encourage people back into the city. The jury noted the inventiveness of integrating the vertical mixed-use solution with an ecological element and the holistically sustainable and logical solution of encouraging a positive form of 24 hour activity... click here to go to source

Hidden Hobart: People With a City in Mind was an ideas competition that called for submissions from Tasmania’s young designers for their visions for the future of the Hobart CBD based on themes from the Gehl Report. From the seventeen entries that were received, ten projects were chosen for a shop-front exhibition around the Hobart CBD that invited both members of the public and a panel of judges to each pick the project that they believed was the best vision for the city. This was an initiative of the Australian Institute of Architects with financial support from the Hobart City Council to help celebrate Hobart Architecture Week.