Guulabaa (Place of Koala)

Gensler is designing the front-of-house visitor experience for the nature-based tourism project, Guulabaa, or Place of Koala, in Cowarra State Forest, in partnership with Forestry Corporation NSW and Bunyah Local Aboriginal Land Council. The highly collaborative project is guided by the First Nations Peoples’ traditional knowledge and contemporary, evidence-based science to create a productive Australian native forest that will also host a breeding program for wild koalas.

The nature-based tourism experience includes four elevated decks with a cafe and gallery run by the Bunyah Local Aboriginal Land Council and an educational amphitheater for cultural aw