Stockholm Library International Architecture Competition 2006, Sweden

_The concept for this design is to unfold, the new library will serve as a mechanism to narrate and embrace the relationship of the site with its component, with the prospect to regenerate the vibrant atmosphere environment in macro. The desire to focus cross-disciplinary collaboration between interrelated contexts is exercised throughout the scheme.

_The environmental and spatial implications are as obvious as they are difficult to mitigate. Within one point or another, exploring will be the major implementation to discover the sense of place. Light gently filters in, landscape slip through down under, a glance out to the pond, random pedestrian networks and traffic routines, all seems to come along. Consequently, this site also cumulates succession of various existing social uses.

_The project seeks to adapt a pre-modern spatial typology to a contemporary mode of learning, significantly altering existing patterns of public and private space. The transform of old annexes into new spatial spaces within the library evolves rethinkable manifesto. Tracing the footprint of the annexes, the walls create an internal streetscape within, it extended the formal sensibility of the existing imprints. The walls are solid, and boundaries are breached by carefully edited appropriation.

_The sustainable approach focuses on maximizing southern light and extends view to the northern aspect. East and west facing facades are kept to the minimal, whilst service areas/ amenities are allocated at these sections.


























Figure 9.1 – Stockholm Library International Architecture Competition 2006 Presentation Board 1


























Figure 9.2 – Stockholm Library International Architecture Competition 2006 Presentation Board 2