SOPHIA - HELSINKI CENTRAL LIBRARY

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SOPHIA - HELSINKI CENTRAL LIBRARY

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AND-RÉ

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Educational › Library

This Library is not (just) a LibraryThe proposal represents the consolidation of cultural identity, democratic notion and humanistic concepts into a building. It is a clear and true space, giving place for important visions to come together. The resulting system accomplishes not also the functional, organizational and technical objectives, but is also a realization of invisible / immaterial / subjective / metaphorical principles and humane representations.The result is much more than a library, even more than a building. It’s at the same time a real space, but also a mental place that projects itself beyond its frontiers and limits, becoming an iconographic element of the society, its culture and humanity vision.It is itself a form of homage to knowledge and a representation of the narrative path to wisdom.It is a new form of understanding and resolving the Library space, becoming a place of experiences, a place without borders, integrating concepts of social centrality, dedicated to arts, aiming for technology expansion, but also projected for the body and mind.This Library is definitely not just a Library.