{"id":4969,"date":"2017-11-06T10:23:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T08:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elinare.com\/?p=4969\/"},"modified":"2017-11-06T10:23:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T08:23:17","slug":"chinas-new-futuristic-library-is-unlike-any-weve-seen-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elinare.com\/en\/chinas-new-futuristic-library-is-unlike-any-weve-seen-before\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s new futuristic library is unlike any we\u2019ve seen before"},"content":{"rendered":"

MVRDV<\/a>\u00a0just completed the Tianjin Binhai Public Library, a spectacular cultural center that\u2019s unlike any library we\u2019ve ever seen. Created in collaboration with local architects TUPDI, the 33,800-square-meter\u00a0library<\/a>\u00a0features floor-to-ceiling bookcases that cascade in curves around a luminous spherical auditorium. The undulating bookshelves and layered ceiling gives the cavernous library a distinctive sci-fi feel accentuated by the giant illusion of an eye visible from the outside.<\/p>\n

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Built in record-breaking time of just three years, the Tianjin Binhai Library was constructed as part of a cluster of five cultural buildings in the Binhai district all connected by a glass-roofed public corridor. The library design is centered on the massive ball-shaped auditorium behind the information desk.\u00a0Bookshelves<\/a>\u00a0are arranged on either side of the auditorium and ripple outwards and double as seating and stairs. These undulating contours continue to the ceiling where they\u2019re embedded with lighting to create \u201cilluminated topography,\u201d and are echoed on the glass facade as curved\u00a0louvers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Tianjin Binhai Library interior is almost cave-like, a continuous bookshelf. Not being able to touch the building\u2019s volume we \u2018rolled\u2019 the ball shaped auditorium demanded by the brief into the building and the building simply made space for it, as a \u2018hug\u2019 between media and knowledge\u201d says Winy Maas, co-founder of MVRDV. \u201cWe opened the building by creating a beautiful public space inside; a new urban living room is its centre. The bookshelves are great spaces to sit and at the same time allow for access to the upper floors. The angles and curves are meant to stimulate different uses of the space, such as reading, walking, meeting and discussing. Together they form the \u2018eye\u2019 of the building: to see and be seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The library\u2019s first two floors comprise reading rooms, books, and lounge areas, while the upper floors house meeting rooms, offices, computer and audio rooms, and two\u00a0rooftop patios<\/a>. Although MVRDV designed for access to the upper bookshelves, the client decided to go against the original design due to the construction timeline. Instead, perforated aluminum plates printed to represent books were installed on the inaccessible upper shelves. Cleaning is done with ropes and movable scaffolding. While the upper reaches of the library are out of reach, visitors don\u2019t seem to mind; the Tianjin Binhai Library has been a massive hit with the public who have been coming to visit in droves.<\/p>\n

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MVRDV\u00a0just completed the Tianjin Binhai Public Library, a spectacular cultural center that\u2019s unlike any library we\u2019ve ever seen. Created in collaboration with local architects TUPDI, the 33,800-square-meter\u00a0library\u00a0features floor-to-ceiling bookcases that cascade in curves around a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[356],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elinare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elinare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elinare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elinare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elinare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elinare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4985,"href":"https:\/\/elinare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions\/4985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elinare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elinare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elinare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elinare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}