LAVA: sherman gallery art foundation library, sydney

this prefabricated and relocatable classroom unit integrates into the landscape while enhancing the learning environment, allowing adjustments for changing needs of remote schools.

gone are the dreary dormitory rooms and impersonal spaces of your typical hostel. LAVA has reinterpreted the former typology embracing the market trends of lifestyle and personalization into communal space.

a solution for replacement housing during natural disasters, this module's geometric appearance is intended to be stacked with other units generating an interconnected village.

this library in the coastal town of taltal, chile forms a cultural network by linking to the historical theater while creating a variety of internal reading atmospheres with diverse roof and ceiling heights.

the undulating exterior of this public library opens towards the sky similar to a blossoming rose, revealing a central garden.

a facade clad with locally sourced sticks creates a screen for the fully glazed interior, producing an evenly diffused natural daylight to brightly illuminate the reading spaces.