Street of book shelves, Library of continuous rooms

Gwangyang Municipal Library is a public room that support all kinds of creative activities of local children and teenagers by book. Various way of reading books such as peruse, silent reading, discussion, narrate and studying make various possible types of library environment.

1. Urban Strategy

Floor level responding to low-rise landscape of Indeok-ro

Two to three stories of neighborhood facilities are mainly located at passenger environment of Indeok-ro(Street). Skylines of this area is lower even it’s a central area. Plan low-rise library in harmony with Indeok-ro’s landscape considering ambulation scale.

Scale of the neighborhood, Arrangement in the front of street

The site of library is surrounded by housings and neighborhood facilities and north side is close to park planned area. By placing similar size of rooms to surrounded building on northwest side, make it possible to approach directly to Indeok-ro. With this, library can be a part of Indeok-ro landscape.

Courtyard opens to the school property on North

Gwangyang east and west elementary schools are closest facilities from the site so it is expected that they will use this library most actively first. Strengthen the symbolism of the library that support local education through the courtyard opening to school and make courtyard can be seen from the school directly.

2. Architecture Strategy

Low-rise library

Multistoried authoritarian shape of library is the conventional image of public facilities. Gwangyang Municipal Library with enough space of site suggests Easily and directly accessible library from street’.

Library greeting by books

In Most public library, it’s ritual that people should across front park or plaza to meet a huge lobby. However, Gwangyang Municipal Library is the Library of Bookshelves-oriented that book welcoming people as the entered inside.

Reading under the Roof

At low-rise library, all the reading rooms are Space under Roof touching the sky. People can experience spatial impression of the roof with various reading environment which can not found at multistory building.