Topography reading books

Chungnam Municipal Library was suggested includes masterplan of cultural facility site includes museum and gallery in Hong-ye Park of Naepo New Town. It follows typical library construction logic of ‘Library on the contributed lot in park’. It is a project searching for spatial possibilities of architecture copying topography in response to the masterplan of Hong-ye park which was just existed as a plan.

Architecture following Topography

Housing of Book, Library is growing like tree rings as times and books are filed up. Likewise the story of Bodleian Library of Oxford University that it grows 11km up every year, layers of library which is growing annually is a main clue of spatial concept of library. To show aging of library, put huge corridor around responding to topography at main reading area.

By this, create central garden surrounding by book shelves, provide experience of reading books with sunlight and wind under tree. Stroll and think while reading books in the nature. Also, make extension of library connected to put new garden.

Cultural activity area in Library

First floor is mainly for the user of reading room and cultural education area. Place service rooms for reading and education rooms at inside of the center of building and put rooms for users in full range of 365 degrees of library.

Period of consilience, One Library

Combine normal reading room and digital room. To make people read digital and analog data together, give a chance to experiences various books at the same time. This room connected to another reading room on the second floor using stairs(elevator) inside of the room. By connecting reading rooms without passing common area, users can experience of reading beyond classification system. Also, book management system can be more efficient by linking library automated system in one.

Archive library

Second floor is for Archive. As the local representative library, data of Chungnam municipal library can be archived and read here. By place administration and local history data together, users can read all kinds of data at once without division of area.

Site as Podium

Suggest the site as cultural landscape reflecting the nature actively. Three types of Cultural art housings (Library-Art museum-Art center) create three different cultural landscapes (Green Podium + house), emphasize surrounding topography and using wide land with human scale pushfully. For this, place car circulations around the site and plan pedestrian circulations on the whole site.

If enter from front, area going to the library and area going between art museum and art center is divided as Green Podium. By putting enough plants next to the gentle slope of entrance of library, make library and landscape look tridimensionally from façade. Road goes outside through backside of library following topography and parking, loading happen at the back of library. The between Green Podium of Library and Art museum-Art center accepts nature from Yongbong mountain. Also it’s a void area deliver it to the public site on the opposite side.