The Boronggook Drysdale Library features an innovative circular design, with a green sustainable roof of 4,300 plants (including 18 native species) and an amphitheatre. It opened to the Drysdale community in April 2023.
A two-storey building, the landscaped rooftop amphitheatre incorporates local and Indigenous botanical elements, as well as a façade that draws on the material history of Drysdale and the greater Bellarine Peninsula. A legacy as a meeting place for the Wadawurrung people was central to the design and construction.
With the standard library functions, the building contains communal multipurpose spaces, quiet study areas, a children’s area, youth space and IT room, adult changing facility, internal courtyard garden, a City of Greater Geelong customer service point and resource-efficient systems.
Innovative, sustainable and modern in design, the library was an exciting project to deliver for Drysdale and the surrounding communities – one of two new libraries (along with the Biyal-a Armstrong Creek Town Centre Library) Nicholson Construction recently delivered for the City of Greater Geelong.
Quickly becoming an ionic centrepiece for the surrounding retail and community spaces, the project is a high-quality community building with high performance, environmentally sustainable design and is part of the City of Geelong’s UNESCO design city accreditation program.
