Reimagining the public library

A design proposal for a new Stockholm City Library

Master thesis (2024)

Authors

K. Gumbs Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

S. Pietsch Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
S.S. Mandias Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (graduation committee member)
E. Karanastasi Teachers of Practice / AE+T - Architecture and the Built Environment (graduation committee member)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment, Architecture and the Built Environment
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Published Date

26-06-2024

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

This project is a response to the changing role of the public library and how this change could be translated in a design for a new Stockholm City Library. A new structure is added to extend the existing library to provide space for large programs and activities that can't be hosted in the existing structure due to lack of space. This new structure is connecting the urban side of the site to the landscape of the park, while respecting it's surroundings. It carefully wraps around the hillside next to the Stockholm City Library, making it part of the landscape of the hill. The interior is a reinterpretation of the rotunda of Asplund’s library and a continuation of the urban and natural landscape it is part of.