A simple gesture like opening the pages of a book became the inspiration for Ghirardelli Architetti in their design proposal for the Daegu Gosan Public Library Competition. By interacting with their intellectual awareness, art, science and history, this can transform into a different state of being, separated from what is happening around us in where we discover leisure, tranquility and food for thought with infinite horizons to explore inside and outside ourselves. Their library design contains this knowledge and makes it available through intriguing spaces and activities, providing at the same time, individual detachment from the daily ritual. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Just as books do, we’ve imagined our library as spaces full of knowledge and tools as if we are opening up the pages of a great book. A pop-up book from which arise extraordinay enrichments. In the park we find the long pathway that leads to the south, by following it, the trees gradually give way to the big white pages resembling pages of a book which is the architectural setting. One after the other these pages run along the path revealing the high volume of the library suspended between them and filtering the atmospheric light, just like the leaves of a tree.
