Year: 2021
IFPC ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION: THIRD PLACE AWARD WINNER The library concept stems from “Vinyasa," which is the movement between poses in Yoga, and in the sacred language of Hinduism, it means “to place in a special way.” In context of a library this is translated a place where you can slow down and take in a deep breath as you hurriedly shuffle between school, work, home and all the stops in-between. It promotes a relaxing and flowing movement from one place to the next, outdoor to indoor, coffee shop to library, and library to office.
One continuous curved form, like a mobius, where the vertical part wraps around two buildings creating a wall and turns to become horizontal to create space for the indoor plaza space. Combining glulam grid shell and ETFE pillows It brings abundant of day light into the building without heating up the space as it works like air bubble.
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