Project Details
- Project Name
- Qujing Culture Center Library
- Location
- Qujing, China
- Client/Owner
- Qujing Culture and Sport Center Building Commission
- Project Scope
- New Construction
- Size
- 202,361 sq. feet
- Year Completed
- 2015
- Shared by
- Selin Ashaboglu
- Team
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Design Architect: Xiaojun Bu, Yingfan Zhang
Project Architect: Haipeng Guo, Langtian Weng
Architecture Design Team: Haipeng Guo, Langtian Weng, Zhenqing Que, Ling Zeng, Jeff Ding
Civil/Structure/MEP Engineer: Shuchuan Zhang, Guangyu Zhang, Xiaonan Zhu, Yongfeng Fan
- Consultants
- General Contractor: Qujing Dafeng Construction Engineering Group
- Project Status
- Built
- Cost
- $13,419,997
Project Description
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:
According to Aldo Rossi, every city needs a
study room. A library is the study room of a city. Michelangelo’s Laurentian Library brings up the question: is the library the interior or exterior of a
city?
Woman and man, rich or poor
are all welcome to the library. It is a socially inclusive heterotopias space
in modern cities. In a way, a “library” is the “house” for the collectives. A library is a place for thoughts. As it concerns with the classification of
knowledge, a library is also a critical program to a civilization.
We attempt to reinvent the traditional layout of a library by
breaking down the separation between reading and storage areas. By having the
two spaces intertwined, an abstract field of knowledge is formed, one could
easily move from the perception space to the projection space. There is a
direct connection between the pattern of circulation and the trajectory of
one’s thought about knowledge. The act of circulation becomes an act of creation.
Cross-connections between different disciplines are spontaneous, and thus, inter-disciplinary studies are encouraged. Critical thoughts are latent in this
matrix of knowledge.
We base our formal transformation
on the architectonic of a “vertical folded-plate.” As we designate the solids to
be the structure and storage, the voids in-between are collective spaces for reading
and gatherings.
