The new building, the library, is a solid and suspended volume which rises in the cityscape.
The project is designed for functional and spatial overlapping layers:
-The large Lobby with its urban character and patterned as a square,
-The big Storage, with its huge and suspended weight, which houses the treasure: the books,
-The vast and luminous Reading areas with wide terraces above the book storage
The new building compares its extrovert space of the ground floor, totally transparent, to the introverted and protected space of the upper library.
The visitors, rising through the thickness of the book storage volume with four panoramic staircases and elevators, pass from a chaotic urban dimension to that of study…………………(continua su www.delisabatini-arch.it)
Status: Competition Entry
Location: Varna, BG
Firm Role: Teamleader
Additional Credits: Architect R. Smaldone, M.V. Tesei
