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.
Astana National Library in Kazakhstan by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group
February 25th, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group
The National Library is conceived as the integration of four organizational strategies into one new national institution:
The perfect circle of the national archives;
The orbiting spiral of the public spaces;
The complex geometry of the Möbius envelope;
The radially distributed section of the Kazakh landscape.
The pure diagram of the circle combined with the meandering trajectory of the public path creates an institution that is rigorous and playful, crystal clear and serendipitous. The eager student, the focused researcher, the citizen pilgrim, and the curious tourist will all find an institution that meets their needs. The park around the library is designed like a living library of trees, plants, minerals, and rocks allowing visitors to experience a cross section of Kazakhstan’s natural landscape, and personally experience the capital’s transition across the country from Almaty to Astana.
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