Week 9. Final Design

A Nature Inspired Space To
Learn | Read | Dine | Play

Bringing the biomimicry inspired design back to the architecture involved implementing the function back into it. The lookout is located at the top and is protected by the canopy. The study spaces exist in the higher level of the building, with small, large, closed and open spaces. A bookshop roofs the cafe and is open to the plants on the cliff face. It is a more intimate public space that links the private study zones with the noisy public cafe. The cafe bellow is accessed from every side of the land. It edges on the cliff with plants growing freely, all furniture is movable and can be lifted to higher ground. The cafe forms the base of the building and seamlessly links the parklands and the architecture.