The story
A village library that became a workshop and a safe house.
Puspadi Library was built in Bungaya Village to address limited access to books, English learning, and shared educational space. Its story did not stop at literacy. The completed building became a wheelchair recycling and storage site, where Puspadi reports restoring roughly 45 to 50 chairs each year as part of a wider distribution program. During Mount Agung’s eruption, staff also used the library to shelter people with disabilities who could not evacuate safely with their households.
That combination of uses reveals why accessible, flexible civic buildings matter. Journeyman International’s design provided a community room capable of changing from reading and teaching to technical work, storage, meals, and temporary refuge. The library is completed and operating, with later improvements strengthening those roles. Its architectural value is not one dramatic form but useful capacity—a dignified place whose clear space, access, and community ownership allowed it to meet needs the original brief could not fully predict.
