Reading room and exhibition spaces organized by the DIBAM
November 8th, 2008 - Posted in Interior Architecture, Modern architectureProject developed from public tender organized by the DIBAM, which envisaged the empowerment of a reading room and exhibition spaces in the lounge Founders of the National Library, along with the acoustic conditioning and lighting of space.
The proposal understands the need to build and consolidate the various programmatic areas that currently live in Founders Hall. On the one hand the need for this part of the national library to offer the public a place to house in a free and free to its users and in turn to reinforce this salon as a place of exhibitions at both the permanent and temporary.
The party’s overall project involves the definition of the act of walking, linked with the path of the permanent and temporary samples at the perimeter, through the formation of an area of permanence in the center of the room, a more intimate nature, calm , Linked to the spaces of reading and information.
These are defined on the basis of their coexistence, in a space which is the highest-ranking Founders Hall, for this, the volume of the remaining, the reading room, conforms with a perimeter of vertical planes permeable (tempered glass screen) by creating a skin, which separates and yet allows always have the perception of spatiality and a total level change with respect to the living room, through a dais, who along with severed from the ambulatory, creates a new spatiality inside the hall.
The work on closing the perimeter, through silkscreen word chosen by the Library, took the 2 sides of the element, with texts that enable its reading on both sides, which in turn desestructura visually, giving it a more ambiguous character, as a fabric.
The volume suspended and rotated spatially define the places of exhibition and reading, creating new tensions and perspectives that give strength to walk the perimeter and at the same place for exhibition. This turn of the volume seeks to force the route of the sample, in the sense of reading from left to right. This in turn generates wander into the visitor a better predisposition before accessing the study area.
