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ARCHITECT
Jinhee Park AIA, John Hong AIA/LEED (principals in charge), Catarina Marques, Chris Minor, Nathan Fash, Ann Ha, Behrang Behin, Erik Carlson
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Jaeseoung Lee (Weidlinger Associates Inc.)
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from the interior, the rear of the stacks become an organizing apparatus: the user can quickly identify the destination
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from the ground level, the sloping floor of the open stacks allows views into them: the contents of the library become shared cultural property
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Czech Library
Prague, Czech Republic | 2006
[international competition]
As both a secure repository of books and a symbolic civic building, a national library must negotiate the spatial dichotomy between storage and display. Through a strategy of 'light monumentality' the book stacks are formed into a curved two-way truss that protects and defines a public winter-garden below it. During the day, its specular surface reflects the surrounding cityscape, while at night an internal illumination reveals the massive amount of books and knowledge within. The curved form itself organizes a system of ramped stacks and reading rooms that allow new interactive relationships between books and their viewers.
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