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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. The Shanghai Library East Hall in China by nARCHITECTSOctober 19th, 2016 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: nARCHITECTS nARCHITECTS has won the 1st prize (Concept Design) in the 2016 International Young Architects Design Competition for the 110,000m2 Shanghai Library East Hall. The competition, which generated over 200 entries, was held by Shanghai Pudong New Area People’s Government, aimed at enhancing Shanghai’s unique cultural influence and promoting qualities of public lives. The library proposal entitled “Library as Home” envisions a library that feels like a large house for all, with a rich variety of environments that Shanghai’s citizens could appropriate as their own. As such, our design is inspired by the intimate connections between people, media and nature in libraries of the ancient world.  Image Courtesy © Sonaar
 Image Courtesy © Sonaar As with the two distinct environments in Tian Yi Ge, the scheme is characterized by open floors that connect library activities to nature and the city beyond, and compact floors that store a wide range of information formats and supporting functions. These open and compact floors have been organized as four pairs, thereby simplifying the public’s understanding of this large building as a home for all. Multiple environments for social interaction, reading, research, archiving, and public amenities are in this way distributed across these two distinct spatial types.  Image Courtesy © Sonaar Four open levels provide distinct library environments, each connected to exterior gardens at every level, as well as to each other, resulting in a continuous public interior. Supported – both structurally and programmatically – by the compact levels below, we imagine these open floors to function as the city’s Patio, Living Room, Atelier and Study: a Library as Home.  Image Courtesy © nARCHITECTS  Image Courtesy © nARCHITECTS  Image Courtesy © nARCHITECTS  Image Courtesy © nARCHITECTS  Image Courtesy © nARCHITECTS  Image Courtesy © nARCHITECTS  Image Courtesy © nARCHITECTS  Image Courtesy © nARCHITECTS  Image Courtesy © nARCHITECTS  Image Courtesy © nARCHITECTS
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