DAEGU GOSAN PUBLIC LIBRARY

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DAEGU GOSAN PUBLIC LIBRARY

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Educational › Library

The library hidden between the pages of a book.A simple gesture like opening the pages of a book, we can interact with our intellectualawareness, art, science and history, transporting us into a different state of being,separated from what is happening around us in where we discover leisure, tranquilityand food for thought with infinite horizons to explore inside and outside ourselves.The library contains this knowledge and makes it available through intriguing spacesand activities, providing at the same time, individual detachment from the daily ritual.Just like books do.This is how we've imagined our library.Spaces full of knowledge and tools as if we are opening up the pages of a great book.An pop-up book from which arise extraordinay enrichments.In a park.In the park we find the long pathway that leads to the south, by following it, the treesgradually give way to the big white pages resembling pages of a book which is thearchitectural setting. One after the other these pages run along the path revealing thehigh volume of the library suspended between them and filtering the atmospheric light,just like the leaves of a tree.Description of the project.The park adjacent to Dalgubeol Main Road with its trees, plays a very important role inthe area of the library and with it's crossway we reach the main entrance.Then imagine a reformation of the existing plants and the restructure of a new designwith pathways and lighting instrumentation enhancing the natural element.A large wooden pathway from the edge of the Main Road slowly rises as an archwaysuspended over the lower garden of the library extending through the whole area andthen slowly bends reaching the level of the southern border. Along the way, the treesgradually give way to the white pages which are large plate walls of precast polishedconcrete that also act as a carrier for the entire support of the building.This idea of permeability is the second cornerstone upon which the entire project isdesigned and imagined of the cultural center and of the whole area.A very transparent window placed on the pathway defines the entrance to the libraryallowing visualization of the entire pathway stretching throughout from north to south.The pages mark the succession of crossings. In this long space, glass rises passingabove the basement, continually following one another set between the pages dividingthe functions within the common space. They are articulated by the views that openfrom the side of the garden below where there is direct access from within the libraryand some functions can also be accessed independently from the rest of the structure.Along the pathways center, there is a large empty vertical space centrally visable thatconnects all four levels of the building in which you can see the vertical connectionsthat are created by the divisions of the long pages.In the basement there exists a direct relationship with the garden and there is alsoindependent access to allow proper functioning of the multi-purpose room or culturalclassroom with a small coffee area, along with other areas of facility management.Climbing to the upper floors there we find the literary collections.On the first floor, spaces are enclosed in large screen printed glass blurring the view ofthe city as if from inside to the exterior it appears that the city is distanced between thepages that are accompanying the view making it almost stationary, like a painting onthe wall, and further filtered through the trees that rise from the garden below. Thespaces defining the children's rooms, reading, newspapers and magazines and thedigital room all enjoy this atmosphere a bit allayed, easily accessible and wellconnected with the rest of the cultural center.The second floor gives attention to reading rooms and collective studies. Here the lightis seen overhead to imply the opening made possible by the infinite value ofknowledge. It is emphasized by the matt coated perimeter walls and from the masscollection of books placed on large shelves. In the latter respect, sound gives way tosilence and tranquility, the central void that allows a visual connection with the rest ofthe whole building emphasizes the idea of a space suspended between earth and theinfinity of the sky, held suspended from the pages of the books that nurture our souls.

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Ferdinando Savio Flores

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Giancarlo Ghirardelli

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DAEGU GOSAN PUBLIC LIBRARY

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