ArchShowcase 
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. Cultura Bookstore in são paulo, brazil by studio mk27October 19th, 2014 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: studio mk27 A bookstore with a meeting place. This was the main premise of the architectural project of the bookstore Livraria Cultura at Iguatemi. More than just merely a place to shop, the store is inviting to stay and hang-out. Thus, we sought for visitors to not only find a book that they might be looking for, but rather that they remain there.  Image Courtesy © fernando guerra
 Image Courtesy © fernando guerra The entrance is a 7.7m with glass and aluminum frames that are entirely recessed, leaving the passage open. On this floor, with more intimate dimensions, we find the audiovisual products, such as Blue Rays and a café in the garden. A set of escalators bring to the great span of the bookstore, reaching over an intermediate floor, which houses toys and comic books – the so-called Geek space.  Image Courtesy © fernando guerra Then we arrive at the top floor where there is a large room, with tables and clubchairs, as well as 21m wide bleachers opening over the span. Inviting to leaf through the pages of a book or even to hold small concerts and lectures, this structure leads the visitors to the open mezzanine.  Image Courtesy © fernando guerra The books encircle the space, supported by eleven large tables arranged orthogonally in the large room and on white stands on the peripheral areas. These shelves have built-in LEDs and delimit the space, as a cube internally clad with books. A multi-use room, especially for conferences – that earned the name philosophical café -, a room reserved for a garden and books for children, completing the program.  Image Courtesy © fernando guerra The floor and the lining as well as the display tables are also of wood. The other planes use white laminates and distinguish the side walls from the rest. Glass hand-rails minimize the visual interference of these elements in the space, disappearing in the entire layout. Lighting is achieved by lines of light and completed by outstanding light in the center of the upstairs room.  Image Courtesy © fernando guerra The configuration of the bookstore floor plan, especially with the open circulation, sought fluidity and spatial continuity. The architectural journey begins in a cozy space then arrives at a monumental area, living, where most of the products and visitors can interact with one another, where one can take a book and read a chapter even before purchasing it, where one can simply rest and watch the movement. We thought like this, with inviting and pleasant spaces that end up promoting a type of socialization among people, these are the bookstores of the XXI century. The program is the very life of the store.  Image Courtesy © fernando guerra  Image Courtesy © fernando guerra  Image Courtesy © fernando guerra  Image Courtesy © fernando guerra  Image Courtesy © fernando guerra  Image Courtesy © fernando guerra  Image Courtesy © fernando guerra  Image Courtesy © fernando guerra Image Courtesy © fernando guerra  Image Courtesy © fernando guerra  Image Courtesy © fernando guerra  Image Courtesy © fernando guerra  Image Courtesy © fernando guerra  Image Courtesy © fernando guerra  Image Courtesy © fernando guerra
Contact studio mk27
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|||||
|
|||||
email
Facebook
Twitter
RSS Feed
