Caboolture Hub

The Caboolture Hub is a 5000m2 library, regional art gallery and learning centre alongside the Caboolture Town Square. The unique community facility is designed to offer a contemporary centre for local culture, art, history and learning in a building that is civic in presence and has a sense of openness and creativity

Project Details

Architects
Peddle Thorp Architects & James Cubitt Architects

Address
4 Hasking Street, Caboolture, 4510

Submitter
Peddle Thorp Architects & James Cubitt Architects

Cost
$25.6m

Photographer
Roger D’Souza

Project Overview

The Caboolture Hub provides a 3000m2 Library, 1000m2 Art Gallery and a 1000m2 Learning Centre alongside the Caboolture Town Square. A new grand colonnade links the Hub to the adjoining streets enticing visitors and providing a level of connectivity essential to stimulating the town square. Significantly this provides the community further opportunities to those defined by the brief such as festivals, cultural displays, entertainment and learning. The design team developed the brief to create a venue for community education and cultural interaction. The potential existed to create a building which had an active civic life that would contribute to engaging both physically and intellectually with the community and encourage an increase in visitation and attract new audiences. It was considered that the quality of the architecture and the interior environment could complement and enhance a progressive programme of education opportunities the council was developing and blur the lines between the respective functions. Key to the building planning was creating a sense of openness and connectivity between all the functional elements of the building. View corridors were created both across the large floors as well as vertically between levels to inform visitors of the scale of the facilities and encourage exploration. This visual connectivity between spaces has allowed visitors to be enticed into further options for using the building and therefor the education opportunities on offer. For instance, from the large double height library space, the seminar rooms in the level above are on display through full high glazing. Similarly, from the seminar rooms the library is on display and enjoys views across the floor to the northern window-wall to the retained trees and iconic Glass House Mountains. Many of the teaching spaces such as the computer training areas within the library are fully-glazed spaces allowing full visibility to see the community education programmes on offer. The learning nature of the building has functional presence throughout. The lower floor has creative studio spaces for new media artists to create and engage with the community via education programmes. An informal Amphitheatre space connecting levels is available for casual performance and presentations.