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04 Waverley Woollen Mills
Studio | Degree | Year 3 | Semester 5 | UTAS University
A heritage building site that needs to be The new build, both its exterior and
redesign to maintain its significant. The interior, is to reinforce the histories
site is located at 45 Waverley Road, of the site, and the companies’
Launceston TAS 7250. Redesigning the product story: “Waverley Mills is
027 heritage building has taken into consid- luxury, quality, sustainability. As
era�on the principles of the Burra Char- Australia’s oldest working tex�le
ter and the opera�onal requirements of mill (established in 1874), we
the mill to allow the current use to produce designer wool products
remain. The new build is to accommo- that are guaranteed to last, beau�-
date a two-storey volume, as appropri- fully and carefully cra�ed, and ethi-
ate for the user. cally produced.”