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Library entrance at night with a curved perforated signage drum lit from within, above a glazed frontage and warm-lit foyer
Education, Punggol, Singapore, Completed

Punggol Regional Library

A public library lit for reading first, with the entrance and signage treated as one continuous approach.

A library is a reading building, so the schedule starts at the page and works outward. Vertical surfaces carry most of the ambient level, which keeps the light off screens and out of the eyes of anybody sitting under it for an afternoon.

The entrance had to read from outside without turning the glazed frontage into a mirror after dark. Light was kept on the soffit and the signage drum rather than pushed at the glass, so the building shows what is inside it instead of reflecting the street.

Fixture families were kept deliberately narrow so the facilities team holds a small spares inventory, and mounting positions were checked against real access equipment before they were fixed.