The new Library and Events Centre in the city of Winter Park, in Florida, designed by the Adjaye Associates architectural firm, was inaugurated with an official ceremony on December 10 and 11, 2021 in the presence of local authorities and architect David Adjaye. An important and solemn moment for citizens of Winter Park as the new civic centre has been created to help contribute to the growth and improvement of the local community and to embody the strong values also expressed by the nearby Martin Luther King Jr. Park. Commissioned by the local administration, the new complex plays the role of a civic and cultural hub for all inhabitants, taking the vision of “a city of arts and culture, cherishing traditional scale and charm, while building a healthy and sustainable future for all generations” and giving it an architectural shape.
The Winter Park Library and Events Centre was built in the northwest corner of the Martin Luther King Jr. Park and is part of a larger revitalisation programme of the same. Architects from the Adjaye Associates studio have designed a building in harmony with the park’s tropical ecology, adopting passive strategies and solutions that respect the principles of sustainability and biophilia.
Considerations that also led to the Centre being conceived as three pavilions rather than a single building. The architects have, in fact, designed three buildings, each playing a different function and different in size, configured as a micro-village well-integrated with the nearby park. In the planimetric organisation of each pavilion, the architects have designed open and flexible spaces that make it possible to adapt the structures to different types of events. The library, for example, contains interactive areas created for young people and children, an auditorium, centres for training and entrepreneurship, as well as spaces to accommodate the town’s historical and archival collections. In addition to the new library, the other two buildings play the role of an events centre with a panoramic rooftop terrace, as well as a new welcome portico that ushers users from the street. The latter, together with the common base, becomes the trait d’union that unifies the three structures. Each building is different from the others, but shares a carefully conceived common formal language that makes it immediately recognisable as part of a larger project. The three volumes, in fact, have all been built in rose-pigmented concrete and share a number of common construction elements that unite them. The base on which all three buildings rest is an example of this common language, while also becoming a panoramic viewpoint over the nearby …….
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