Library for Qujing Culture Center in Yunnan, China by Hordor Design Group and Atelier Alter

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According to Aldo Rossi, every city needs a study room. A library is the study room for a city. Michelangelo’s Laurentian library brings upthe question: is the library the interior or exterior ofa city?

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• Architects: Hordor Design Group and Atelier Alter
• Project: Library for Qujing Culture Center
• Location: Qujing, Yunnan, China
• Photography: Atelier Alter
• Software Used: Modo and Rhino, Autocad
• Principals in Charge:Yan Huang
• Design Architect: Xiaojun Bu, Yingfan Zhang
• Project Architect:Haipeng Guo, Langtian Weng
• Architecture Design Team:Haipeng Guo, Langtian Weng, Zhenqing Que, Ling Zeng, Jeff Ding

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• Civil/Structure/MEP Engineer: Shuchuan Zhang, Guangyu Zhang, Xiaonan Zhu, Yongfeng Fan
• Client: Qujing Culture and Sport Center Building Commission
• General Contractor:Qujing Dafeng Construction Engineering Group Co. Ltd.
• Area: 18,800 Square Meters
• Project Year: 2009
• Project Completion: 2015
• Cost: $13,419,997

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Woman and man, rich or poor are all welcome to the library. It is a socially inclusive heterotopias space in modern cities. In a way, a “library” is the “house” for the collectives. Library is a place for thoughts. As it concerns with theclassification of knowledge, library is also a critical program to a civilization.

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We attempt to reinvent the program of library by breaking down the separation between reading and storage areas. By having the two spaces intertwined, an abstract field of knowledge is formed, one could easily move from the perception space to the projection space. There is a direct connectionbetween the pattern of circulation and the trajectory of one’s thought about knowledge. The act of circulation becomes an act ofcreation.Cross-connections between different knowledge are spontaneous, and inter-disciplinary studies are encouraged. Critical thoughts are latent in this matrix of knowledge.

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We base our formal transformation on the architectonic of a “vertical folded-plate.”As we designate the solids to be the structure and storage, the voidsin-between are collective space for reading and gatherings.

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Image Courtesy © Hordor Design Group and Atelier Alter

Image Courtesy © Hordor Design Group and Atelier Alter

Image Courtesy © Hordor Design Group and Atelier Alter

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Tags: China, Yunnan

Categories: Autocad, Cultural Center, Library, Rhino

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