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Xinshan Community Center and Library
Xinshan Community Center and Library
Qionglai City, Chengdu, China
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Xinshan Community Center and Library
Qionglai City, Chengdu, China
Project Featured on Nov 28, 2023
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2021
SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
BUDGET
$1M - 5M
The Xinshan bookstore is located in a center of Qionglai County, and as a seed project for the larger urban renovation project of the overall historical district. It is an important social infrastructure that can provide a gathering and learning place for the local people.
The focus of the design is mainly on making an innovative but contextualized architectural form that is created in a highly specific context, which could facilitate a spatial dialogue between the new and old as well as the reinvented versus historical, echoing in a harmonious relationship. The seemingly simple site-plan arrangement allows the building to be aligned geometrically with the surrounding buildings and morphologically well embedded into the existing fabric. While much attention during the design stage was spent on the sectional composition and the design of the roof, which was inspired by the vernacular form of curvilinear pitched roofs, such as the temple right next to it; but also reinvent this formal language into a new typology of bookstore design.
The double-curvature Roof is demarcated into three pieces with different heights, under which are three different types of communal space, indicating different degrees of “spatial transparency”. Under the middle roof is an interior amphitheater, which functions as a communal space but also contains a certain feeling of monumental space as the centrality of the building. Under the higher roof vertically arranged three levels of reading balconies in L-shape that is framed by book walls as a sound screen to make a more tranquil space for reading. Under the lower roof, we lay out the open floor plan for coffee and atrium space which could be arranged flexibly according to the different sizes of gatherings.
The focus of the design is mainly on making an innovative but contextualized architectural form that is created in a highly specific context, which could facilitate a spatial dialogue between the new and old as well as the reinvented versus historical, echoing in a harmonious relationship. The seemingly simple site-plan arrangement allows the building to be aligned geometrically with the surrounding buildings and morphologically well embedded into the existing fabric. While much attention during the design stage was spent on the sectional composition and the design of the roof, which was inspired by the vernacular form of curvilinear pitched roofs, such as the temple right next to it; but also reinvent this formal language into a new typology of bookstore design.
The double-curvature Roof is demarcated into three pieces with different heights, under which are three different types of communal space, indicating different degrees of “spatial transparency”. Under the middle roof is an interior amphitheater, which functions as a communal space but also contains a certain feeling of monumental space as the centrality of the building. Under the higher roof vertically arranged three levels of reading balconies in L-shape that is framed by book walls as a sound screen to make a more tranquil space for reading. Under the lower roof, we lay out the open floor plan for coffee and atrium space which could be arranged flexibly according to the different sizes of gatherings.
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