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Re-Design of Wellington Central Library
Wellington's Central Library closed indefinitely due to structural advice that the library may not perform well in a significant earthquake. Wellington City Council (WCC) is seriously considering demolishing the library and replacing it on the same site. The library served far more purposes than the storage of books. Many Wellingtonians see the library as a ‘home away from home’. This project investigates how a new Wellington Central Library provides an important opportunity for the design of an internationally recognised Landmark Architecture building for New Zealand’s capital city of Wellington.
Design Tutor: Daniel K. Brown/ Daniele Abreu E Lima
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Project Stream: Conceptual Architecture Stream TZ
RE-DESIGN OF WELLINGTON CENTRAL LIBRARY 04
2019 - 2020 I CONCEPTUAL ARCHITECTURE
Wellington Central Library is a cultural nexus situated at the heart of Victoria Street. Being one of Wellington’s most historically relevant infrastructural sites, Victoria Street hosts a number of 19th Century landmarks. The project inscribes itself into the urban landscape by operating as an extension of an infrastructural network as well as an anchor for an academic campus, interfacing cultural, institutional and infrastructural functions to augment its neighbouring buildings. The library’s typology is defined by three intersecting circles. It appropriates the historic structure’s scale and geometry as a scaffolding for a new cultural centre.
Design Tutor: Daniel K. Brown/ Daniele Abreu E Lima
Project Stream: Conceptual Architecture Stream TZ
The overlap of tectonic, graphic, and organization of systems aims to represent an ecology of design decisions, where its esthetic is contingent on the collision and exchange between the layers that conform the building. The aggregation of conflicting geometries widens the perception of the whole by disrupting its legibility into a tension field: an assemblage of fragments that signal towards each other by means of projection, creating coherence as a whole. The complexity and density of the project is driven from the urban relationship to the architectural scale by using projective techniques to create coherence between distinct parts.
Design Tutor: Daniel K. Brown/ Daniele Abreu E Lima
Project Stream: Conceptual Architecture Stream TZ
