Adelaide Writer's Week is an annual event held in the city centre for authors and other creatives to meet and interact with the community. Given the increasing popularity and lack of spaces for events to be held, the Fidler Writer's Centre provides a hub for creatives to come together outside of the bounds of this singular event each year.
Inspired by the descriptive works by Richard Fidler, this program provides space for performance, writing, recording, education, intergenerational interaction and more, for not only himself but also for other members of the community.
The design of the writer's centre is inspired by the process of sashimono, a traditional japanese method of creating joins with minimal interventetion i.e. with no bolts or welds. When this process is introduced at a larger scale, it creates an arrangement of interlocking walls, within which masses can be embedded, circulation patterns can be created and sight-lines across the site can be controlled.
Quotes below used to construct abstracted site analysis
'I can almost imagine what its would be like to hold it all in my hand, a miniature of the streets I knew as a child ... the miniature is slipping through my hands but the sensation of it remains.'
- Richard Fidler
- Richard Fidler
'There are earth and water, light of the sun, landscapes and vegetation and there are objects, made by man.'
- Peter Zumthor
- Peter Zumthor
