With the library as one of the most ancient architectural types that symbolizes human strive to fixate, collect and preserve knowledge, this proposal for the Daegu Gosan Public Library is based on the concept of a stone monolith as storage of the most important cultural knowledge and historical heritage. Designed by Viktor Kopeikin, Pavel Zabotin, Anna Kosharnaya, and Andrian Sokolovsky, the building of the library is synthesized due to symbiosis of the traditional (identical) and transnational (globalistic). More images and architects’ description after the break.
Nowadays cultural identity and ways of its implementation in modern architecture and design is one of the most complicated and challenging issues. This issue is not very serious in countries and regions that are actively joining global networks (cultural, economic, etc.). Can we speak of identity today? Should we base modern architecture concepts on the idea of regionalism? This project is a professional attempt to find answers to these questions. Besides, libraries were used for extremely important process of information transmittance. Emergence of this type of public building showed cultural blossoming of civilizations.
