(COUNTRY) Gunditjmara (Dhauwurd Wurrung)
A carefully modulated new building is knitted together with a group of mostly modest heritage structures. The context is the small campus of a TAFE in a regional Victorian city. The brief entailed the integration of a public library and the TAFE’s “learning hub.” Altogether, this sounds constrained though worthy. But despite the constraints – perhaps because of them – Kosloff Architecture has created a complex and interesting project.
The main public street access to the library is through the classical pedimented front of what was an old hall with a history of various uses, including as a library. A smaller pediment supported by double columns on either side marks the doorway. It’s stripped back and
