All Hands on Deck
An outdoor timber deck landscape for the Prince George Public Library.
All Hands on Deck is a landscape proposal for the outdoor space at the Bob Harkins Branch of the Prince George Public Library: a 1,530 m² timber deck that turns an under-used edge of the site into a year-round civic room.
The site today
The deck sits on the library’s existing raised concrete podium, shown here in a drone photo from March 2026.
Community first
The design began with a public survey that drew 220 responses. Those answers set the programme: a gathering area, a children’s zone, quiet reading, dining, cultural display and a winter garden.
The Fernery
At the centre is the Fernery Reading Nook, a small greenhouse that keeps part of the deck usable through a northern BC winter.
Timber
Decking, seating and the greenhouse frame are detailed in wood, continuing the focus on timber construction that runs through his research.
Renderings on this page are AI-assisted, made from the Rhino model shown on the left.
