PROJECT

Waitohi - Johnsonville Community Hub

CLIENT

Wellington City Council

Our team gets results:

Byron Roff – Business Manager Central

Sam Turner – Project Manager

Waitohi

New Library, café and kindergarten

Waitohi provides a focal point for the community, integrating a new Library and Community Hub, café and kindergarten together in an exciting hub in the suburb of Johnsonville in Wellington.

Connections and community are key themes, and Waitohi is integrated with a new entrance to the Keith Spry Pool and provides a strong connection between Memorial Park and the town centre.

The new two-level library comprises a series of loosely defined zones that are innovative and exciting. These create a journey of discovery as people move through the library’s unique spaces, including a makerspace, young people’s zone, children’s zone, a terraced performance space, café and courtyard.

The interior is imagined as a ‘learning landscape’, creating a journey of discovery as users experience spaces from lower to upper levels. The ‘forest floor’ with glulam columns like tree trunks connect to the articulated ceiling ‘canopy’ above. The ‘Escarpment’ mediates between levels, providing a place to sit/ work and look out over the landscape

The new facilities sit at the heart of Johnsonville, and will revitalise the area for all.

Jill Day, Deputy Mayor and portfolio leader for Libraries, and Children and Young People