SONGDO LIBRARY
COMPETITION
松 岛 图 书 馆 竞 赛
SONGDO LIBRARY
COMPETITION
松 岛 图 书 馆 竞 赛
松岛，韩国
8200 m2
2021
松岛，韩国
8200 m2
2021
松岛是一个崭新的城市。是世界上少数一个在近代科技的轰炸后，才诞生的极度年轻的产物。”世界上最聪明的城市”，在这个以智能科技刻成骨架，高收入菁英作为血肉的近乌托邦，公共图书馆近乎迷思。
科技快速演化，传统图书馆的存在意义被网络及配送严重打击，只要有手机你可以拥有无限的资讯。我们思考著处在松岛这个数位城市中图书馆存在的本质原因，重新定义图书馆，方案架构在书的空间不只是书的空间，不只是阅读或研究的场所，它是街道、广场、小巷公园，是城市的延伸、人们见面的地方，是这个复杂而安静的智能城市的人文意义，温暖事物的象徵。对应著图书馆将死这个问题，我们以情感价值作为回答。
- A favorite place to hang out
以往的图书馆常以一个巨型的大厅作为建筑的开始或中心，是建筑的公共核心，作为城市转换到图书馆的分界点，而藏书区如同有人进出的仓库常常设置在相对分离的位置。方案将这个”公共核心”打散，分布到每一个角落，取消城市与建筑的边界。在这个三层楼的建筑中，书的功能就是建筑的母体，是一个开放的平台，将人际互动的可能性放到最大，书的功能转换为一种流动而没有边界的弹性容器，无阻隔的开放式楼板提供灵活可调整的空间，充分承载未来扩充的可能性，而展示及报告厅等文化的功能及办公散落其中，制造出各种场景，有狭长的面向树的阅读长廊/看的到海的讨论区等等丰富的空间，而书的功能就是这个建筑最公共的区块，连接起所有功能，是这个有机体的血管。科技的发展让查询不再局限于固定场所，置入在各处的数位媒介让使用者在图书馆中自由的移动，阅读、聚会、互动、合作，刺激著事件的开端及创意的萌发，或者就只是单纯地在这里见面。这个图书馆聚合了聚会的场所与制造回忆的场景，是合理性与精神性并存的场所。
- 图书馆内的广场
不同于一般的广场位于建筑的外围，方案将广场纳进建筑，没有大型大堂或中庭，图书馆围绕著一个引入的广场而生。它可以是市集、公园、教堂、剧院 ，也是资讯的即时中心，是图书馆的延伸，开放给所有人的社区圆心。这个没有界线的室外空间由窄高的走道及一个向天空展开，带有一点神性的空间组成，可以让自然与使用者密切互动，置入的互动媒体让科技与自然并存，于近未来的建筑中带入诗意。下雨了、太阳出来了，在这里你可以更强烈地感受气候变化、光线转移、季节更迭，由书架围绕而成的墙上的开洞也让图书空间与这个引入的广场紧密连接，环绕式的布局让室内外边界的关系转换，来客永远保留著对于室外的感知。
开放的连结让这个广场有了模糊的边缘，在不同时候可以成为图书馆各个功能的延伸：与展览空间连动、新书作者签名会、与报告厅同步放映等等，拥有未定的功能定义。而恋人在这里相聚、孩童在这里嬉戏，吃早餐、抗议、散步、遛狗、辩论，图书馆因此扩充为一个更多元的文化载体。
- 建筑内的自然
方案将环境友好的概念融入建筑的架构，引入节能系统的同时，将自然作为一个主题及启发，让建筑成为风景的一部分。屋頂的型态模拟波浪，以本地的再生砖及模块化的太阳能板组成，南侧渐序低矮，与景观连接，让全日开放的景观公园往建筑延伸；往北侧拉抬的体量，时而作为活动的背景，同时也遮挡了对藏书不利的南向阳光，而越往高处带有反射的金属砖对应著不同光线、天气，反映出不同表情的周遭环境。
景观中庭的设置将光线及空气有条件地引入了建筑，同时让无机的空间中保留著绿意，可以在树影下看书或讨论，举行各种活动，为建筑增添了松弛而缓和的氛围。
我们在玻璃幕墙外设置了一层不规则形状的百叶，波浪状的百叶一方面调和了自然光线，同时制造出丰富多变，如水纹的阴影。藏书更多的位置设置更宽的百叶以阻挡更多的光线，而报告厅或办公区域的百叶则是较为疏窄，让空间更开放。
Songdo is a brand-new city, one of the few extremely young products born after the bombardment of modern technology in the world. In this near-utopia, “the smartest city in the world,” with smart technology as its skeleton and high-income elites fueling its bloodstream, public libraries are like mythological creatures.
Technology evolves at the speed of light. Traditional libraries have taken a severe hit by the development of networks and alternate modes of distribution. As long as you have a mobile phone, you have access to unlimited information. Focused on the essential reasons why libraries should exist in the digital city of Songdo, we are redefining the city’s libraries. The design is based on the idea that the space occupied by a book is not just a book space, nor a place to read or research: the book space might be a street, a square, an alley, a park, an extension of the city, a place where people meet, a humanistic touch, or a symbol of something warm in this complex and quiet smart city. When asked whether the library is dying, we answer with its sentimental value.
- A favorite place to hang out
In the past, libraries were often designed with a huge hall at the entry or center of the building. This main hall served as the public core of the building and the demarcation point where the city turns to library. The book collection was often located in a relatively separate area, like a warehouse, where people go in and out.
Our design breaks up the “public core” and distributes it to every corner, eliminating the boundary between city and building. In this three-story building, the matrix of the building is the program of books, an open platform that maximizes the possibility of interpersonal interaction. The program of books is transformed into a fluid container with no boundaries. The unobstructed, open floor plans provide flexible and adjustable space to allow for the possibility of future expansion. Other programs, such as the exhibition space, auditorium, classrooms and offices are scattered among them. The program of books is the most public area of the building, connecting all functions and serving as the blood vessels of the organism.
The composition of the programs creates various scenes, including a long and narrow reading corridor overlooking an expanse of trees and rich spaces such as discussion areas where the sea is within sight. Cultural programs, such as the auditorium and the exhibition space, are partitioned with glass and merged with the main library space, encouraging creative uses of the space during the absence of events.
The development of science and technology has made it possible to dispense with a fixed location for accessing the library catalog. Digital media placed in numerous locations allows users to move freely in the library. The activities of reading, gathering, interacting, and cooperating stimulate the initiation of events, germinate creativity, or just simply bring people together. The library is a place to hang out, build culture, or make memories, as well as a place where rationality and spirituality coexist.
-The Square in the Library
In contrast to a general square located on the building’s periphery, our design places the square inside the building. Without a central hall or atrium, the library is built around a reimagined square. It is a market, a park, a church, a theater, a real-time center of information, an extension of the library, and a community center open to everyone. This unbounded outdoor space is composed of a narrow, tall walkway and a somewhat divine space open to the sky, creating a container that allows patrons to closely interact with nature and where the embedded interactive media allows technology and nature to coexist, introducing poetry into the architecture of the near future.
Whether it is raining, or the sun is coming out – here you can experience climate change, the ways in which the light shifts, and the transition of seasons with all your senses. The openings in the wall are surrounded by bookshelves, allowing the book space to be intricately connected to the square. With a wraparound style, the layout brings the inside out, while visitors continually retain their connection to the outdoors.
The open periphery gives this square a fuzzy edge, which offers a multitude of options for extending the library’s functions, including linkage with the exhibition space, signing events with authors of new books, simultaneous screenings at the auditorium and other functional definitions yet to be determined. The square is where lovers meet and children play, people eat breakfast, protest, promenade, walk their dogs, debate lofty topics; the library is transformed into a more diverse cultural infrastructure.
- Nature in the Library
The design integrates eco-friendly architecture, creating a connection between nature and architecture. While introducing sustainable systems, the architecture becomes part of the scenery, using nature as a theme and inspiration. The roof is made from local rebirth tiles and photovoltaic solar cells, and its pattern resembles ocean waves, echoing with the nearby Yellow Sea.
The building has a lower roof towards the south side, connecting to the landscape and allowing the all-day open landscape park to extend into the building, while it rises up on the north side and may sometimes serve as a backdrop for events conducted on the south-side landscape. The form of the building naturally shields direct sunlight from the south that is damaging to the books. Further up on the rooftop, the reflective solar tiles mirror the surrounding environment with different expressions depending on variances in the light and weather.
The setting of the courtyards introduces light and air into the building, while maintaining a connection to the nature within the interior space. This enhances a relaxing atmosphere inside the space, where people can read, discuss, or engage in various activities under the shade of the adjoining trees.
We created a layer of irregularly shaped louvers outside the glass curtain wall. On the one hand, the wavy louvers soften the natural light, and on the other hand, they create rich and varied shadows like water patterns. In the areas with a lot of books, wide shutters are used to protect books from strong sunlight, while the shutters in the auditorium and office areas are narrower, thus making the space more open.
松岛是一个崭新的城市。是世界上少数一个在近代科技的轰炸后，才诞生的极度年轻的产物。”世界上最聪明的城市”，在这个以智能科技刻成骨架，高收入菁英作为血肉的近乌托邦，公共图书馆近乎迷思。
科技快速演化，传统图书馆的存在意义被网络及配送严重打击，只要有手机你可以拥有无限的资讯。我们思考著处在松岛这个数位城市中图书馆存在的本质原因，重新定义图书馆，方案架构在书的空间不只是书的空间，不只是阅读或研究的场所，它是街道、广场、小巷公园，是城市的延伸、人们见面的地方，是这个复杂而安静的智能城市的人文意义，温暖事物的象徵。对应著图书馆将死这个问题，我们以情感价值作为回答。
- A favorite place to hang out
以往的图书馆常以一个巨型的大厅作为建筑的开始或中心，是建筑的公共核心，作为城市转换到图书馆的分界点，而藏书区如同有人进出的仓库常常设置在相对分离的位置。方案将这个”公共核心”打散，分布到每一个角落，取消城市与建筑的边界。在这个三层楼的建筑中，书的功能就是建筑的母体，是一个开放的平台，将人际互动的可能性放到最大，书的功能转换为一种流动而没有边界的弹性容器，无阻隔的开放式楼板提供灵活可调整的空间，充分承载未来扩充的可能性，而展示及报告厅等文化的功能及办公散落其中，制造出各种场景，有狭长的面向树的阅读长廊/看的到海的讨论区等等丰富的空间，而书的功能就是这个建筑最公共的区块，连接起所有功能，是这个有机体的血管。科技的发展让查询不再局限于固定场所，置入在各处的数位媒介让使用者在图书馆中自由的移动，阅读、聚会、互动、合作，刺激著事件的开端及创意的萌发，或者就只是单纯地在这里见面。这个图书馆聚合了聚会的场所与制造回忆的场景，是合理性与精神性并存的场所。
- 图书馆内的广场
不同于一般的广场位于建筑的外围，方案将广场纳进建筑，没有大型大堂或中庭，图书馆围绕著一个引入的广场而生。它可以是市集、公园、教堂、剧院 ，也是资讯的即时中心，是图书馆的延伸，开放给所有人的社区圆心。这个没有界线的室外空间由窄高的走道及一个向天空展开，带有一点神性的空间组成，可以让自然与使用者密切互动，置入的互动媒体让科技与自然并存，于近未来的建筑中带入诗意。下雨了、太阳出来了，在这里你可以更强烈地感受气候变化、光线转移、季节更迭，由书架围绕而成的墙上的开洞也让图书空间与这个引入的广场紧密连接，环绕式的布局让室内外边界的关系转换，来客永远保留著对于室外的感知。
开放的连结让这个广场有了模糊的边缘，在不同时候可以成为图书馆各个功能的延伸：与展览空间连动、新书作者签名会、与报告厅同步放映等等，拥有未定的功能定义。而恋人在这里相聚、孩童在这里嬉戏，吃早餐、抗议、散步、遛狗、辩论，图书馆因此扩充为一个更多元的文化载体。
- 建筑内的自然
方案将环境友好的概念融入建筑的架构，引入节能系统的同时，将自然作为一个主题及启发，让建筑成为风景的一部分。屋頂的型态模拟波浪，以本地的再生砖及模块化的太阳能板组成，南侧渐序低矮，与景观连接，让全日开放的景观公园往建筑延伸；往北侧拉抬的体量，时而作为活动的背景，同时也遮挡了对藏书不利的南向阳光，而越往高处带有反射的金属砖对应著不同光线、天气，反映出不同表情的周遭环境。
景观中庭的设置将光线及空气有条件地引入了建筑，同时让无机的空间中保留著绿意，可以在树影下看书或讨论，举行各种活动，为建筑增添了松弛而缓和的氛围。
我们在玻璃幕墙外设置了一层不规则形状的百叶，波浪状的百叶一方面调和了自然光线，同时制造出丰富多变，如水纹的阴影。藏书更多的位置设置更宽的百叶以阻挡更多的光线，而报告厅或办公区域的百叶则是较为疏窄，让空间更开放。
Songdo is a brand-new city, one of the few extremely young products born after the bombardment of modern technology in the world. In this near-utopia, “the smartest city in the world,” with smart technology as its skeleton and high-income elites fueling its bloodstream, public libraries are like mythological creatures.
Technology evolves at the speed of light. Traditional libraries have taken a severe hit by the development of networks and alternate modes of distribution. As long as you have a mobile phone, you have access to unlimited information. Focused on the essential reasons why libraries should exist in the digital city of Songdo, we are redefining the city’s libraries. The design is based on the idea that the space occupied by a book is not just a book space, nor a place to read or research: the book space might be a street, a square, an alley, a park, an extension of the city, a place where people meet, a humanistic touch, or a symbol of something warm in this complex and quiet smart city. When asked whether the library is dying, we answer with its sentimental value.
- A favorite place to hang out
In the past, libraries were often designed with a huge hall at the entry or center of the building. This main hall served as the public core of the building and the demarcation point where the city turns to library. The book collection was often located in a relatively separate area, like a warehouse, where people go in and out.
Our design breaks up the “public core” and distributes it to every corner, eliminating the boundary between city and building. In this three-story building, the matrix of the building is the program of books, an open platform that maximizes the possibility of interpersonal interaction. The program of books is transformed into a fluid container with no boundaries. The unobstructed, open floor plans provide flexible and adjustable space to allow for the possibility of future expansion. Other programs, such as the exhibition space, auditorium, classrooms and offices are scattered among them. The program of books is the most public area of the building, connecting all functions and serving as the blood vessels of the organism.
The composition of the programs creates various scenes, including a long and narrow reading corridor overlooking an expanse of trees and rich spaces such as discussion areas where the sea is within sight. Cultural programs, such as the auditorium and the exhibition space, are partitioned with glass and merged with the main library space, encouraging creative uses of the space during the absence of events.
The development of science and technology has made it possible to dispense with a fixed location for accessing the library catalog. Digital media placed in numerous locations allows users to move freely in the library. The activities of reading, gathering, interacting, and cooperating stimulate the initiation of events, germinate creativity, or just simply bring people together. The library is a place to hang out, build culture, or make memories, as well as a place where rationality and spirituality coexist.
-The Square in the Library
In contrast to a general square located on the building’s periphery, our design places the square inside the building. Without a central hall or atrium, the library is built around a reimagined square. It is a market, a park, a church, a theater, a real-time center of information, an extension of the library, and a community center open to everyone. This unbounded outdoor space is composed of a narrow, tall walkway and a somewhat divine space open to the sky, creating a container that allows patrons to closely interact with nature and where the embedded interactive media allows technology and nature to coexist, introducing poetry into the architecture of the near future.
Whether it is raining, or the sun is coming out – here you can experience climate change, the ways in which the light shifts, and the transition of seasons with all your senses. The openings in the wall are surrounded by bookshelves, allowing the book space to be intricately connected to the square. With a wraparound style, the layout brings the inside out, while visitors continually retain their connection to the outdoors.
The open periphery gives this square a fuzzy edge, which offers a multitude of options for extending the library’s functions, including linkage with the exhibition space, signing events with authors of new books, simultaneous screenings at the auditorium and other functional definitions yet to be determined. The square is where lovers meet and children play, people eat breakfast, protest, promenade, walk their dogs, debate lofty topics; the library is transformed into a more diverse cultural infrastructure.
- Nature in the Library
The design integrates eco-friendly architecture, creating a connection between nature and architecture. While introducing sustainable systems, the architecture becomes part of the scenery, using nature as a theme and inspiration. The roof is made from local rebirth tiles and photovoltaic solar cells, and its pattern resembles ocean waves, echoing with the nearby Yellow Sea.
The building has a lower roof towards the south side, connecting to the landscape and allowing the all-day open landscape park to extend into the building, while it rises up on the north side and may sometimes serve as a backdrop for events conducted on the south-side landscape. The form of the building naturally shields direct sunlight from the south that is damaging to the books. Further up on the rooftop, the reflective solar tiles mirror the surrounding environment with different expressions depending on variances in the light and weather.
The setting of the courtyards introduces light and air into the building, while maintaining a connection to the nature within the interior space. This enhances a relaxing atmosphere inside the space, where people can read, discuss, or engage in various activities under the shade of the adjoining trees.
We created a layer of irregularly shaped louvers outside the glass curtain wall. On the one hand, the wavy louvers soften the natural light, and on the other hand, they create rich and varied shadows like water patterns. In the areas with a lot of books, wide shutters are used to protect books from strong sunlight, while the shutters in the auditorium and office areas are narrower, thus making the space more open.