With the role of the library changing in recent years, a library functions as more of a community center with less concern in collection space. In their proposal for the Daegu Gosan Public Library, PRAUD‘s concept focuses on creating flexible and generous space in user oriented space, and on housing collection space into certain area. Basically, collection spaces are located in between two major cores, that are also major structural supports of the building. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Since the first library the Royal Library of Alexandria in Egypt, library always as been the center of information which was stored in stacks in print format. Therefore, it has been one of the most critical issues to design collection rooms and consider their future expansion. As most of the information is stored in digital format now, the weight of the library is now onto open user spaces and common spaces from the collection area.
