ADJUSTMENT fringe event

12 Nov

Written By Regional Architecture Association

On Thursday afternoon, delegates can choose between two concurrent tour options. For those drawn to heritage Hobart, this visit explores Install House, formerly Ingle Hall, among the city’s oldest buildings, and how Partners Hill has given it new life.

INSTALL HOUSE

Begun between 1812 and 1814, Ingle Hall is widely claimed, though never proven, to be Hobart’s oldest building. Over two centuries it has been a general store, an inn, a school, a boarding house, government offices, a surgery and the print museum for The Mercury. It also survived a 1949 government plan to demolish it.

Partners Hill has since reimagined the building as Install House. It combines the practice’s studio, living and guest quarters, and a gallery, library and meeting room. The project is about improvising with reality: use and re-use, found objects, recycled materials and the skills of local makers on site. Partners Hill set out to honour this space while exercising an inventive economy.

Because everything was inserted, and nothing touched the walls, the scheme was not hampered by heritage restrictions and as such took on an intensity where creative concepts could be pushed to extremes.

PARTNERS HILL

Partners Hill is a small, senior architectural team led by Timothy Hill. The practice offers short-term, high-impact design collaboration for studios seeking clarity, momentum or a breakthrough in the design process. The team works flexibly, often as an embedded part of another practice, and offers concentrated design support at key moments in a project.

The practice is built on Timothy’s four decades of award-winning architectural leadership, both in Australia and internationally. Partners Hill is recognised for its ability to resolve complexity, bring coherence to design direction and work fluently across scales.

EVENT INFO

ADJUSTMENT

DATES 25-27 February 2027

LOCATION Nipaluna / Hobart on the lands of the Muwinina people. The Friday main seminar day will be at the Moonah Arts Centre, 23-27 Albert Road, Moonah

CPD 6 formal points available on the Friday

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