Broken hill has a long history of aboriginal culture. It becomes more diverse and welcoming people from different places to join. The surrounding buildings are wearing materials from different prior times, the new Broken hill library can be seen as an expectation to future: more open and inclusive.

The design takes on a phenomenologist approach to manipulate space, material, and light and shadows to create memorable encounters that induce sensorial impacts on its inhabitants; the architecture thus perceives the passage of time and human behaviours.

The proposed structure has two ‘skins’, salt bricks on the outter one will erode overtime, which left only with the skeleton and solar panels they allow sunlight to pass through and climbing plants to grow on it. The building form underneath mimics the broken hill landform, and its internal programmes configured in accordance with varying acoustic qualities of the surroundings, the liquid form establishes dramatic contrast to the rectilinear canopy above. The canopy interacts with the surrounding site buildings and overarches the primary roof, it can be seen as a 'roof contained within a roof' structure (interiorised exteriority, vice versa). Unlike the canopy that is subject to erosion, the freeform roof will be permenantly accessible in the future and welcomes more people to broken hill, solar panels will provide shading for people reading or sitting below.

Salt, leaves, vine, space and users will change over time in different seasons and decades.