Presentation boards for 5-person team competition- addition to Gunnar Asplund\'s Library
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SVEAVAGEN FAÇADE 1:500 SITE PLAN 1:1000 AERIAL VIEW SOUTH AERIAL VIEW SOUTHWEST ODENPLAN VIEW EAST GLACIä RTEK The project values the cultural, natural & regional connections. It preserves the national interest to relate buildings and topography. It strengthens the historical expansion of the city connecting the Odenplan to the Reflecting Pond via the central corridor & new plaza. The Library sits along one of the glaciofluvial eskers that formed the topography of Stockholm. The new building’s crystalline forms draw inspira- tion from the glacial ice that created the hill against which Gunnar Asplund’s library was built. The roof plaza focuses attention on this ancient hill in a way that underscores its civic importance. The extension replaces the annexes to the Asplund library and reveals the iconic west face to the Odenplan. Asplund’s sketch of a proposed path connecting the library with the top of observatory hill.
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SVEAVAGEN FAÇADE 1:500 SITE PLAN 1:1000
AERIAL VIEW SOUTH
AERIAL VIEW SOUTHWEST
ODENPLAN VIEW EAST
GLACIäRTEK
The project values the cultural, natural & regional connections. It preserves the national interest to relate buildings and topography. It strengthens the historical expansion of the city connecting the Odenplan to the Reflecting Pond via the central corridor & new plaza.
The Library sits along one of the glaciofluvial eskers that formed the topography of Stockholm.
The new building’s crystalline forms draw inspira-tion from the glacial ice that created the hill against which Gunnar Asplund’s library was built.
The roof plaza focuses attention on this ancient hill in a way that underscores its civic importance.
The extension replaces the annexes to the Asplund library and reveals the iconic west face to the Odenplan.
Asplund’s sketch of a proposed path connecting the library with
the top of observatory hill.
MAIN ENTRANCE
NEWS ZONE
LEARNING ZONE
STUDIOS, TEACHING ROOMS, AUDITORIUM
SUBJECT AREAS, OPEN MEDIA COLLECTIONS
YOUNG PEOPLE
CHILDREN
VISIT-ORIENTED ACTIVITIES
SORTING MACHINE + MEDIA MANAGEMENT
LOGISTICS CENTRE
DEPOSITORIES
RESTAURANT
CAFE
ADMINISTRATION + STAFF
THE SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF CHILDRENS BOOKS
MUA - Main Usable AreaGROSS AREA
500 sm
300 sm
1,550 sm
850 sm
10,800 sm
500 sm
900 sm
1,500 sm
1,000 sm
700 sm
1,000 sm
700 sm
300 sm
2,000 sm
1,200 sm
23,800 sm29,000 sm
FLOOR PLAN L-1 1:500
ODENGATAN SECTION 1:500
ODENGATAN FAÇADE 1:500
GLACIäRTEK
The media collections are grouped according to subject and can be accessed by elevator and by the grand stairway. The stairway connects the various levels via a large triangular opening at the center of the main media collections volume. At the top, skylights placed like shards of ice catch the sun over the hill year round.
The crystalline triangular volume sited adjacent to Observatory Hill houses the media collections. The Swedish Institute for Children’s Books is at its top floor. Programming is flexible due to large open floor areas. Administration, staff and management functions are found on the lowest level. A restaurant faces the terrace through the ‘prow’ of the triangular crystalline volume. Visitor oriented activities form a hub between the existing building and the addition.
The Asplund library houses the adult and children’s fiction collections; the narrative strength of this Asplund’s design is sympathetic with literature. The learning center is located in the refurbished bazaar buildings, allowing it to be open on an around-the-clock basis.
Concept - In an age of shrinking polar ice caps and alpine glaciers this proposal conceptually recreates part of a glacier that once covered the site. The new extension’s crystalline forms draw inspiration from the glacial ice that created the hill against which Gunnar Asplund’s library was built. The new project is then both ‘glaciär’ and ‘bibliotek’, thus ‘glaciärtek’.
Site and Massing - The proposal calls for the replacement of the existing Annex buildings with a new library extension. The new building reinforces the unique qualities of the existing Asplund library and restores some of the important topographical and cultural values of the larger site.
The primary volume of the new library extension is sited such that its north face maintains and visually extends the east-west bias of the Odenplan. This triangular form is placed against the hill, revealing a greater portion of the west façade of Asplund’s building from Odenplan and metro.
A new public plaza is accessed via formal stair and ramps. This plaza is effectively an outdoor room formed by the west wall of the Asplund library, the north face of Observatory Hill and intruded on by the glassy ‘prow’ of the media collection volume. The new plaza focuses attention on this ancient hill in a way that underscores its civic importance and strengthens the connection to the existing plaza and reflecting pool to the south of the original library.
Circulation - A reference to Asplund’s idea of terraces leading up to Observatory Hill, the new building’s roof is an occupiable landscape with pedestrian paths. Its slanted planar forms lead from the plaza up to a roof terrace then cross over to the hill. Entrances into the new building are placed along this pathway.
The central hall or ‘crevasse’ slices east-west through the interior of the addition. It separates public assembly-oriented spaces from the media collections housed in the triangular building volume to the south. This hall provides interior semi-public circulation linking Odengataan to the park beside Sveavägen. It also provides access between the new and existing buildings, linking the two structures to form a fully integrated library facility.
FLOOR PLAN L-2 1:500
FLOOR PLAN L-4 1:500
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The main interior hall is seen as the ‘crevasse’ connecting new and old buildings and Odengatan with park.
