Preshil Library

  • MELBOURNE,
    AUSTRALIA
  • Client
    Preshil - The Margaret Lyttle Memorial School
  • Architect
    studio505

A competition entry for Preshil Library.  studio505's proposal was for a campus hub creating density, complexity and choice. The plan refracts paths of travel, creates new vistas and encloses hide-aways for exploration. 

The ramping book stacks talk about a knowledge journey and the Lorenz circulation fires imagination and curiosity.  Our proposal creates two distinct 'wings' with which rests a courtyard around an existing tree.  The library form and site is in a location that is rarely able to be appreciated in the round. 

studio505 created a building that maximised each facade into a unique condition of openess, screening and permeability.

Early sketchesEarly sketches
Lorenz inspirationLorenz inspiration
Ground floorGround floor
First floorFirst floor