Architects:JPE Design Studio

Area :1458 m²

Year :2018

Photographs :Sam Noonan

Manufacturers :  AutoDesk, DuPont, Dulux, Stylecraft, Austex Vinyl, Brighton Cememnt, DMK Forest Products, Exhopanel, Fielders / Colorbond, Green Edge, Hunter Douglas, Kerf Design, LOCKER GROUP, Laminex, Resource, Trimble Navigation, Woven ImageAutoDesk

Landscape :JPE Design Studio

Consultants :Minuzzo Project management Pty Ltd, Hendry Group, Arketype, Chris Sale Consulting, Trento Fuller

Engineering :WSP

Project Principal : Josephine Evans

Project Architects : Tine Van de Wiele, Kerstin Bruneder, Peter Ahladas, Kym Wiseman

Interior Design : Joanne Kaesler

Graduate Of Architecture : Natasha Qiu, Katarina Jovanovic

Landscape Design : Richard Kleinig, Adele Langusch

Director In Charge : Adrian Evans

Clients : City of Port Adelaide Enfield

City : Angle Park

Country : Australia

A strategic initiative by the Port Adelaide Enfield Council, the design of Parks Library is driven by Council’s vision to create a unique point of difference and a sense of ownership for their local community; a welcoming space for people to relax, read and learn. With an emphasis on blurred indoor-outdoor spaces and a natural flow of movement that caters for everyone, Parks Library is conceived as a garden that defines the role of a modern library.

The key design drivers for the project was to achieve accessibility to all, to connect with nature and the surrounding pubic precinct and to conceive the interior as an extension of the central garden. This project facilitates library collections, arrival and customer service space, administration, community function centre, associated kitchen, meeting rooms, a toy library and a makerspace. As the heart of the facility, the central garden functions as a foyer, play space, reading garden, event and exhibition space, and most of all a welcoming space that is ever present.