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Jindabyne Library and Community Centre
A carbon-negative mass timber library in the Snowy Mountains built in under ten months.
The library on its granite plinth beneath a wide sky.
- Practice
- fjcstudio
- Year
- 2022
- Photographer
- Brett Boardman Studio
The project
fjcstudio designed the new carbon-negative library and community centre in Jindabyne, in the Snowy Mountains, combining a stone plinth that echoes the local granite with prefabricated cross-laminated timber sourced from local forests.
The lofty interior takes its form from the timber structure, which was erected in two weeks. Designed for manufacture, assembly and future disassembly, the project went from engagement to completion in just under ten months, in 2021 and 2022, as a model for social infrastructure in remote regional areas.
A reading corner under the timber roof.
Bookshelves and lounge seating under timber trusses.
The library floor beneath linear lights. · Grey sofas beside the shelves. · Reading tables along the timber walls.
Photography: Brett Boardman Studio.
Credits
- Architect
- fjcstudio
- Photographer
- Brett Boardman Studio
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