Multi-use: An Adaptable Library

Melbourne, VIC

In response to the rapid commercialisation of Melbourne’s CBD, the public library should be a space that reconstructs the preconception and historic typology of the library as a scholarly, colonised institution to a communal environment that acts as multi-purpose space with enhanced program to initiate community involvement and social/cultural.

In performing its public service, the library should combine both spaces for meeting and socialisation as well as a sanctuary to find safety, solitude and comfort in extending the public arena and being accessible to all demographics.