PROMENADE

Induk University

Project idea

How many iterations were tried to arrive at the final outcome?
First, the concept was examined from various perspectives. When I thought about the current library, I felt that the library is still in the past.
Our team had a total of 5 design attempts.
First of all, in the future library, we thought that everything could be solved in digital media without configuring the space like Metabus, and we decided to restart the plan because it was difficult to configure the space. .
Now that the public doesn't use libraries very often, what kind of library does it have to be in order to be an interesting library? I started running into the problem.
At this time, the main content was that users' interest in the library was decreasing, and they were people who did not use it unless it was to collect information, so the content of the library to solve the problem was The inconvenience, stiffness, and static feeling of the library were the reasons why people stopped visiting the library on a regular basis.
There was an opinion that the library should be a place where team members can take a leisurely stroll, and that it could become a complex cultural space library where various programs and people gather, breaking away from the bad perceptions that the library has. When I proceeded with the project again and set the concept by creating a mass format, I decided that the library's architectural design direction would sound lighter than that of a complex cultural space, and I decided on the correct direction for this project. can now be started.

To have new places where people meet.
"Library walk" beyond the space with sympathy.
Users who visit libraries are not satisfied with just reading books and getting information as before. In the digital age, and now through a pandemic, libraries are at a crossroads. In order to solve this problem, we present to users a new method for the library as an architectural analysis.

Project description

PROLOGUE
"Library walk" beyond the space with sympathy
Users who visit libraries are not satisfied with just reading books and getting information as before.
In the digital age, and now through a pandemic, libraries are at a crossroads. Rather than failing to find its original role and identity and losing public interest and decline, the library must strengthen its role, essence, and value, grow sustainably, and establish itself as an indispensable social institution and organization. I don't think so. In the face of the various challenges and threats posed by the internal and external environment surrounding libraries, will the library survive, achieve sustainable growth, and open the "Golden Age of Libraries" in the digital age? Whether the library will reduce its position to a single point or phase in the "Galaxy of Information" depends on the awareness and competence of the architects who operate the library, create spaces, develop contents and programs, and deploy services. Focus on "power given by space", "relationship" and "interaction". Customers experience the space while moving or staying, and discover the value of the library. In this way, facilities that draw out users' sympathy are gaining popularity. Libraries will be able to enjoy the glory of past libraries only when they are reborn as spaces that perform the functions of complex cultural spaces where people can absorb and experience various information.

SITE
LUBLIN is the ninth largest city in PO and is led by POLAND lubelskie.
The site selected for this project is located in the Osiedle Imienia Karolalipińskiego district. The site serves the city as an example of rapid development.

Surrounding status
The site is about 15,000m2 ahead. Medical and educational facilities are concentrated on the right, and commercial facilities are located on the left. Residential facilities are concentrated in the upper and lower areas, and the approachability and commercial area are well developed.
Medical colleges, medical facilities, and the National Police Agency are distributed within a radius of 0.8 km around the site, and there are 4 schools, public institutions, regional museums, and cultural facilities within 1.3 km. A general hospital, two primary schools and a vocational school are located within a radius of 1.77 km.
The surrounding medical facilities, educational facilities, and residential facilities are densely packed, so access is good. Access to surrounding stops is easy, and the front of the site is an 8m wide two-lane road.
In this way, the programs and facilities in the building can be made more attractive by targeting the main users to the surrounding residential facilities.

Climate
Climate questionnaire for the Lublin region.
In Lublin, the warm season lasts for 3.6 months, from May 21st to September 9th, with an average daily high temperature of over 19°C. The hottest month in Lublin is July, with an average high temperature of 23°C and an average low temperature of 13°C.
The cold season lasts for 3.7 months from November 20th to March 10th, with an average daily temperature below 5°C. The coldest month in Lublin is January, with an average low temperature of -5°C and an average high temperature of -0°C.
In summary, summers are comfortable and partly cloudy, while winters are mostly cloudy. Throughout the year, temperatures typically vary from -5°C to 24°C, rarely below -15°C or above 30°C. So, based on the table above, the best time to do warm weather activities is from mid-June to the end of August year-round. Therefore, we judged that it is suitable for outdoor activities in other seasons except winter.

CONCEPT IDEA
- Enrich your daily time.
It is positioned as a creative open space that emphasizes communication space. In the lobby space, comfortable lighting and furniture, including bookshelves, are placed to create a 'community stand' where people can freely interact and learn. It was composed diversely in a variable space that can be
The library is a space where diverse generations can harmonize and sympathize. All age groups use one space together without dividing the space by age. In a beautiful and attractive space, you can read books with your family, talk and communicate freely, and enjoy the colorful reading culture, and each person can enjoy the library itself in their own way.
By designing the library according to the flow of copper traffic, we tried to prepare for the evolution of the library that will come in the future. Due to the modular structure of the building, we tried to reduce the clutter of bookshelves in the reading room and break room as the collection of books increases, which is common in other libraries.
A space shared by the local community and a park-style study for citizens to heal themselves. Beyond the space where the library provides information, it has changed to breathe with the local residents. This suggests the direction that people can visit the library for various purposes, just like going to a cafe for conversation and a comfortable space.
This creates a unique culture that can be created in the library space. Starting with the will to create diverse values ​​as a user-centered complex cultural institution, we have built a relationship network that transcends the limits of space between the library and its users.
It is desirable for users to freely and comfortably access materials the moment they enter the library, and to share and communicate information with men and women of all ages using the information and materials they desire. You can feel the opacity of the inside and outside by looking at the experience that accompanies the various spaces that appear as the outside and inside intersect in a chain, the natural flow of traffic lines, and the depth of the space. This is a departure from the framework of the library, so it may cause inconvenience to customers who use the library effectively, but it is a new place that can leave a good impression on users beyond the perception of the space of 'library'. hope to become.

Solutions for Libraries
Even though it's a public library, the bookshelves are tightly lined up in a row, the heavy atmosphere makes it difficult to make the sound of turning even one bookcase, and the reading room must be a deserted place where you can't tell who's sitting around you because it's blocked by partitions. It doesn't have to be. Originally, a public library is a facility that has a strong character of ``welfare'' that conveys the knowledge of ``books'' to local residents at a low cost through media. Since most of the operation is funded by taxes from the national and local governments, it will be extremely efficient from the time of construction to the opening. For this reason, the public library in Korean memory has the appearance of a communist-era building in Donggu, which is crude and stripped of the beauty of white space. We must not agree with such a point of view, look at architecture as a social phenomenon, and present an alternative to the city through the method of 'architecture', which is the space where citizens live their lives. Of course, this does not mean that the original library should disappear as a space for storing and efficiently arranging the medium of printed books. We must aim for a building that complements the current problems and maintains a unique design and design that harmonizes with the urban living space.
Internally, the plan was to create a huge space divided into various reading spaces, rest spaces, and study spaces. The wave-patterned bookshelves play a role as the main spatial device that constitutes the space boundary inside our library, and also as a form element such as a seat where you can read books, the front curtain wall of the building, and the bookshelf that expresses the flow of the building.

Technical information

Designer intent
Currently, the library is trying to change from the authoritative place of the past "Temple of Knowledge" to the everyday place of community space. However, the surrounding libraries still have simple and limited functions of searching for books, reading and studying. Therefore, users are forced to perform only simple actions and experiences associated with functions and spaces, and libraries create boundaries and create discontinuities within the city.
In addition to simple functions and purposes, the actions and possibilities of users are expanded, and through changes in space, we tried to change the library into a daily space that is the center of the community.
In order for the library to become an everyday space, it must be naturally connected and coexist with the easily accessible space. Park promenades are often seen around us like libraries, but they can be used casually at any time without a specific purpose.
We propose that the library should also become a living room in the city center, like a promenade, opening the spatial functionality to the open space in the city center and drawing out various actions and experiences of the users. Inspired by the concept of “library”.
Generally, people often enjoy leisure in their daily life while taking a walk. Having a space where you can drink lightly instead of the rigid prejudice of the library will reduce the sense of rejection that users have and will be a designed and successful attempt for public libraries through the focus of public attention.
Like a park where activities are carried out along a promenade without a set destination, the library allows users to have various experiences along the way according to their free will. The promenade is shaped like a bookshelf, and various programs are organized in each space surrounding the promenade so that the park and the library share the same spatial characteristics.
Through this, people who visit with different purposes and activities will experience various programs and communicate while sharing the space. By doing so, local communities that have not formed a sense of solidarity and empathy on existing sites will come to have a sense of cohesion while sharing their daily lives.

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