The Untold Stories of Edge Hill explores the idea of preserving stories through architecture. Within Edge Hill, there are many stories seen through its history that have often gone unnoticed and undervalued, particularly in contrast to Liverpool, a city widely recognised for celebrating its heritage and identity.

The proposed library is designed to act as a ‘book’ of Edge Hill, communicating these untold stories through physical and spatial experience, allowing the building to function as an open archive of the area’s history. Through movement, materiality, light, and sequence, the architecture encourages visitors to engage with the stories of Edge Hill through immersive spatial experience rather than solely through written text, creating a more accessible and widely shared form of storytelling.

The new library will act as a central hub for other libraries in Edge Hill, working collaboratively to provide extended services and longer opening hours that cannot be sustained by the other community libraries within Liverpool. Its accessible location and strong transport connections make it a key civic destination for the wider community, while also providing additional learning, cultural, and social spaces for existing local residents.