AIA Victorian Public Architecture Award for North Fitzroy Library and Community Hub
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GroupGSA designed North Fitzroy Library and Community Hub has won the AIA Victorian Public Architecture Award and received a commendation for the Sustainability Award. The North Fitzroy Library and Community Hub is a three story, 2,040 sqm facility incorAIA Victorian Public Architecture Award for North Fitzroy Library and Community Hub
GroupGSA designed North Fitzroy Library and Community Hub has won the AIA Victorian Public Architecture Award and received a commendation for the Sustainability Award. The North Fitzroy Library and Community Hub is a three story, 2,040 sqm facility incorporating a Library, Maternal Child Health Facility and a variety of Community focused facilities including a new home for the City of Yarra’s International House. Based on a neighbourhood house for seniors, the International House has become a cross-generational meeting place for people of different cultures and ethnicities.“The facility is designed with a strong focus on the user experience and flexibility of future use. This approach is achieved by a conscious distillation of cellular supporting spaces to the south and open flexible spaces to the north,” informs the GroupGSA website.“The Library is distributed over two levels, occupying the majority of the building’s wedge-shaped floor plate. The first floor houses the Maternal and Child Health facilities, including two playgroup rooms and Library. The second floor is focused on community facilities with large divisible spaces, commercial kitchen and shared community office. An extensive rooftop garden connects the northern portion of the second and first floors by cascading planters and informal seating. This rooftop garden provides a protected external garden space for interaction and study,” GroupGSA says.The awards were announced across 14 categories; a total of 66 awards were given including named awards, architecture awards and commendations from the 108 shortlisted projects. The awards were announced at a dinner hosted in Melbourne by the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects. Victoria’s leading architects have been honoured by the 2018 Victorian Architecture Awards, with education and public architecture projects dominating in multiple categories demonstrating their significance to the public realm.http://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more