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Best of #libraries
Design of public space and architecture of knowledge are woven into the great theme of the library; this week a selection of the best projects published on Domus Web.
The theme of the library combines the design of the public space with the design of the space of knowledge.
An interesting field of intervention that in recent years – with the development of new information technologies – has seen a profound change of functional spaces and ways of usage.
Mecanoo faced the theme of the “library of the future” in the project developed with Martinez + Johnson that has been chosen to revitalize the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington DC. Signed by Mecanoo is also the new Library of Birmingham, a transparent glass building wrapped in a filigree pattern of metal circles which are bold and refined interlocking stories of industrial heritage. About transparecy is also the Chelles Multimedia Library, a public structure in Paris by Atelier Novembre, that is a powerful statement from a urban, landscape and functional perspective.
Often, the design of a new library becomes an opportunity and a focal point of a broader intervention for the architectural and social redevelopment of entire urban areas. Among these The Pinch, a library and community center in Shuanghe Village, Yunnan Province, China, designed by Olivier Ottevaere and John Lin; in a completely different contest, the King Fahad National Library, the library designed by Gerber Architekten that represents the new centre of the rapidly changing Olaya District in Riad; and the Science Library by Badia-Berger in Versailles, composed of three juxtaposed volumes intersected by a series of voids, which acts as a connector between a sloped park to the east and a campus' vast western sporting grounds.
The theme of the library also lends itself to architectonical experimentation, like in Musashino Place, a composite cultural public institution in Tokyo planned by kw+hg architects as an assembly of space unites which are deduced from human proportions.
