Woven Museum

King Edward Park is one of the most beautiful and unique parks on the east coast of Australia. The shape of the park was created through early mining and has resulted in large hollows and bowls of smooth turf along the cliff face that overlook the ocean below. The main structure on the site is an elegant and detailed pergola.

The park is literally all curves, from the landscape to the tapering roof of the pergola. Weaving is an art that transcends cultures, many traditional Aboriginal cultures used weaving to form the framework of their structures and every imaginable everyday item. This art gallery softly weaves itself into the park with a timber structure that winds around the gallery in gentle curves that bring the structure back into the landscape.

The building is terraced into the site so that people enter at the roof of the museum and travel underneath the weave. This is through a sculpture garden based on the root system of the introduced Norfolk Island Pine for which King Edward Park Is famous. Native plants such as coast fanflower and groundsel spring up between these roots. Daylight from the garden provides wells of natural light throughout the gallery from short, walled skylights. The cafe and bookshop below open directly onto the iconic rotunda.