CITY MAIN LIBRARY GWANGJU
LIBRARY | Gwangju - Korea| Area 11000m²
Status : competition
CONCEPT
Nowadays, in the era of digital revolution, any information can be accessed within a second. Thanks to devices and internet people can download any book or journal to read while having breakfast in the kitchen or traveling in a train, watch any movie in a cozy bed or study online without leaving the house.
So the project invites audience to answer an open question “What is the purpose of a library today?”.
Modern library has stopped being a tool to find information, so how can architecture respond to this transformation?
Should a modern library become somewhere people come not only for information but for ex- periencing a new reading environment? Can architecture of a library provide more than just a fluent system of services but also create a space that attracts a reader to come and stay?
MASTERPLAN
The proposal creates a connection between existing landscape and the building.
The principal idea is to “invite nature into the building” by creating narrow smooth spaces flowing among vegetation. These spaces, “hide-outs” are wide enough for people to use and thin enough to approach to the landscape outside. They make people feel themselves being surrounded by nature and tranquility while reading.
Hide-outs are multiplied and applied in all directions on the building plan for various program uses. They can be used as a space for narrating stories for children, a coffee corner, co-working or luminous office.
They slide in the existing landscape towards the river on the North creating a visual link with it. Giant windows in the end of hide-out spaces allow having a panorama view on the river. On the other sides these windows make visual links with the incinerator plant and the city on the South
On the East a public square is designed to create a connection with incinerator building that would be proposed as a space for creative class with different kinds of activities. It can be trans- formed to co-working, small manufacture workshop studios and festival space for art and the square would serve as a place in-between.
MASTER PLAN
The proposal creates a connection between existing landscape and the building.
The principal idea is to “invite nature into the building” by creating narrow smooth spaces flowing among vegetation. These spaces, “hide-outs” are wide enough for people to use and thin enough to approach to the landscape outside. They make people feel themselves being surrounded by nature and tranquility while reading.
Hide-outs are multiplied and applied in all directions on the building plan for various program uses. They can be used as a space for narrating stories for children, a coffee corner, co-working or luminous office.
They slide in the existing landscape towards the river on the North creating a visual link with it. Giant windows in the end of hide-out spaces allow having a panorama view on the river. On the other sides these windows make visual links with the incinerator plant and the city on the South
On the East a public square is designed to create a connection with incinerator building that would be proposed as a space for creative class with different kinds of activities. It can be trans- formed to co-working, small manufacture workshop studios and festival space for art and the square would serve as a place in-between.