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The New Library
by UNSWBE
as a place to ‘connect represented through form connects to THE NEW BROKEN HILL LIBRARY IS A CIVIC, LANDSCAPE OF BROKEN HILL. SITUATED BLENDE ST, THE LIBRARY UTILISES A SERIES ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE AND TRADITIONAL FORMS CONTRAST THE TOWN’S EXISTING STRUCTURE. THE LIBRARY FOCUSES ON FORM CONNECTS TO THE OLD CHARLES SERVICE AREAS, WHILST THE MAIN CIRCULAR CONNECTION TO NATURE AND PROVIDING THE LIBRARY IS DIVIDED ACROSS THREE VOID. THE MAIN READING ROOM IS SITUATED USER ON A JOURNEY THROUGH THE SPACE CONNECTION THE NEW BROKEN HILL LIBRARY 73
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The proposal for the New Broken Hill Library focuses on the idea of connecting and learning. The new library is designed as a civic, communal and social the EMAIL : ..........................................................jasminlj@outlook.com LOKE-JEFFERY
SYMBOLISM CONNECTION FORM + CIRCULATION
MAINTAINING
CIRCULAR FORMS, TAKING INFLUENCE FROM ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE AND TRADITIONAL INDIGENOUS ART AND SYMBOLISM. THESE CIRCULAR FORMS CONTRAST THE TOWN’S EXISTING ARCHITECTURE, CREATING A SIGNIFICANCE TO THE NEW STRUCTURE. THE LIBRARY FOCUSES ON THE IDEAS OF CONNECTING AND MAINTAINING. THE NEW FORM CONNECTS TO THE OLD CHARLES RASP LIBRARY WHICH HOUSES THE LIBRARY ARCHIVES AND SERVICE AREAS, WHILST THE MAIN CIRCULAR FORM ENCIRCLES AN EXISTING TREE, CREATING A CONNECTION TO NATURE AND PROVIDING VIEWS THAT CAN BE SEEN THROUGHOUT THE LIBRARY. THE LIBRARY IS DIVIDED ACROSS THREE FLOORS, WITH WALKWAYS SUSPENDED ACROSS A CENTRAL VOID. THE MAIN READING ROOM IS SITUATED ON THE GROUND AND FIRST FLOOR, INVITING THE USER ON A JOURNEY THROUGH THE SPACE AS THEY ASCEND HIGHER INTO DIFFERENT AREAS.
