Small
cities usually lack for public space of good quality –
multifuncional, progressive; one, used by city inhabitants without
restraint. This is why our project for municipal library is not only
institution for borrowing books, but also a public space.
Here
kids can borrow their favourite tales, come for private lessons or
workshops. Teenagers can use hot spot and quiet reading room, adults
may enjoy reading in bright, moody spaces and using the library for
meetings, debates, professional workshops and movie shows. The
municipal library in Kolno becomes urban forum - place for meetings
and debates, but also quiet space for contemplating the book,
building personal relationship with written words.
Flexible
spatial arrangement of the library, which deftly and effectively
distributes functions inside the volume, let comprehensive use of the
library spatial scheme in bigger cities as well as in smaller
villages. That library always has the desirable added value –
multifunctional public space which makes the library goers active
users of the space. Therefore, 'public' is not only adjective in the
institution's name, but characteristic feature of the space.