Public Library Renovation - Bo'ness Scotland

The success of this project was contingent on its ability to juggle and coordinate pre existing, and deeply ingrained, social habits and convention in the public realm. An injection of conviviality and social vivacity was of utmost importance, but not at the expense of the precarious and complex social structures already discernible at a town level. The true task of this brief was to negotiate the responsibility of public architecture in the public realm, and to walk the line between helpful augmentation and heavy handed interventionism.