Stockholm Public Library Competition - The Book Hill

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Stockholm Public Library Competition
The Book Hill
0823

This project attempts to achieve two main objectives—to make the ridge accessible and to replace the impractical annexes with a well-functioning, continuously built-up library component. The aim of the project is not to create a new classical urban space. The meandering roof landscape/urban floor is a townscape that links the traditional street space to the park and can guide people up onto the ridge. The library is omnipresent during the walk up the slope, which reinforces its expression as a public library and provides excellent potential for keeping parts of the library open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The architects say that this roof landscape will be further articulated and more functions added to it later on in the process.

The building is an object in its own right and does not therefore compete with the Asplund building or with other projects in the vicinity. The project is still rather conceptual and greater complexity needs to be added. As the project is developed further, the docking feature to the Asplund building should be designed with great care.

The building consists of several overlapping concepts—including the terraced, meandering book/media walkway, the public spaces by the facades, the short-cuts through the library and the supporting functions along the back edge. All the components are well defined and positioned and designed so that it will be easy for visitors to find their way around. The open terraced public space will create an overview and a feeling of togetherness whilst at the same time parts of the space can be made intimate and secluded. This is not the first library design with ramped floors and there are disadvantages of which the author needs to be aware when developing the proposal further. The terracing creates opportunities for views and for providing much of the library with natural daylight but the lighting in the inner parts of the library needs further study.




Fonte: www.arkitekt.se

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[Dreamer]

Já tinha andado a ver esse concurso e fiquei fascinado por este projecto...

[MagDarq]

Tb eu... foi o q me despertou mais interesse! :)

[asimplemind]

Penso que não há nenhum projecto que tenha conseguido resolver a problemática do contacto directo com a biblioteca do Asplund, mas sinceramente penso que era impossível criar algo que conseguisse ser harmonioso com a pré-existència porque o edifício do Asplund obriga à criação de um raio visual limpo à volta para que consiga viver plenamente. No entanto, por entre as propostas todas que vi esta até me parece a mais interessante. Lembro-me de quando estive nesse jardim de ter descido precisamente por onde essa proposta se implanta e penso que os arquitectos realmente perceberam a importância desse percurso e valorizaram-na inserindo aí a nova biblioteca. Pessoalmente penso que esta proposta irá valorizar bastante a cidade de Estocolmo, dando-lhe mais contemporaneidade!