Luftbild Montage (Visualization: blanekarchitekten)
Modell (Photo: Jan Blanek)
Grundrisse, Schnitte (Drawing: blanekarchitekten)
Project
Extension Stadsbibliotheket
Extension Stadsbibliotheket
Stockholm / Sweden, 2006
Description
International Competition - Extension Stadsbibliotheket
Stockholm, Schweden, 2006
© blanekarchitekten
With the Stadsbibliotheket Gunnar Asplund created a masterpiece of modern Swedish architecture. This Acropolis for books stands elevated on a platform, slightly twisted out of the spatial guidelines of the neighbourhood blocks. Like a Palladian villa basic shapes, the square and the circle create its spatial syntax. In the collective memory of Stockholm Asplunds library has always been a solitary object in the city. We are convinced that Stadsbibliotheket has to stand free and denies any further extension.
The question is how to situate a new public library, which has 3 times more gross area beside Asplund‘s Library without destroying the situation and creating at the same time a new world-class library?
„Klippan urban“ is a man made landscape. It is as high as the hill of Observatoriekullen and creates an „urban cliff“. It has two major public levels. The first one is Asplund‘s platform; the other one is the top level of Observatoriekullen. Between these two levels the 5 storey high library works as a link in order to connect both levels. A circulation system through a major „Light void“ creates the spatial connection, and takes the daylight deep inside the building. A library is one of the most public spaces. It is a space that combines communication with contemplation. This information landscape consists of open plans that can be organized flexible by mobile furniture and offers clearly defined spaces with different zones from silent cells for concentrated working, to more populated public spaces. The east and west facade are developed out of the geometry of the hill. A layered system of horizontal granite slabs create an artificial topography while the north facade, made out of glas, serves as a huge “shop window” to communicate information from inside the library to the city around it. We understand the urban configuration of classic architecture “Asplunds library” and landscape “klippan urban” as an “ensemble of public space network“. Only in combination with each other they are able to give a strong image of a contemporary information center which will be recognised in the future throughout the world.
Team:
Jan Blanek, Roberto Sanna
International Competition - Extension Stadsbibliotheket
Stockholm, Schweden, 2006
© blanekarchitekten
With the Stadsbibliotheket Gunnar Asplund created a masterpiece of modern Swedish architecture. This Acropolis for books stands elevated on a platform, slightly twisted out of the spatial guidelines of the neighbourhood blocks. Like a Palladian villa basic shapes, the square and the circle create its spatial syntax. In the collective memory of Stockholm Asplunds library has always been a solitary object in the city. We are convinced that Stadsbibliotheket has to stand free and denies any further extension.
The question is how to situate a new public library, which has 3 times more gross area beside Asplund‘s Library without destroying the situation and creating at the same time a new world-class library?
„Klippan urban“ is a man made landscape. It is as high as the hill of Observatoriekullen and creates an „urban cliff“. It has two major public levels. The first one is Asplund‘s platform; the other one is the top level of Observatoriekullen. Between these two levels the 5 storey high library works as a link in order to connect both levels. A circulation system through a major „Light void“ creates the spatial connection, and takes the daylight deep inside the building. A library is one of the most public spaces. It is a space that combines communication with contemplation. This information landscape consists of open plans that can be organized flexible by mobile furniture and offers clearly defined spaces with different zones from silent cells for concentrated working, to more populated public spaces. The east and west facade are developed out of the geometry of the hill. A layered system of horizontal granite slabs create an artificial topography while the north facade, made out of glas, serves as a huge “shop window” to communicate information from inside the library to the city around it. We understand the urban configuration of classic architecture “Asplunds library” and landscape “klippan urban” as an “ensemble of public space network“. Only in combination with each other they are able to give a strong image of a contemporary information center which will be recognised in the future throughout the world.
Team:
Jan Blanek, Roberto Sanna
