Oxford Street Library is a public, council-owned library located within the heart of Swansea city centre. The design concept for this project was creating a library that is people-centred, not collection-centred. The typology will be focused on the community rather than the collections it holds.
The aim of this project is to introduce library and other facilitates back into the city centre of Swansea, thus providing the much needed footfall that Swansea city centre needs. The library will provide active ground floor uses including a Mini-Market and Bistro which is used in collaboration with the opposite grand theatre. The upper levels of the library will contain a magnitude of different functions from private spaces, collaboration spaces and external green areas. Making this building a space that anybody in the community can utilise to its full potential.
Active Use GF - Mini-Market
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