London Public Library is a proposal by Vincenzo Stile Flavio Terracciano and Matteo Stasi for Archmedium designed in 2015. It is located in London United Kingdom in an urban setting. Its scale is large. Key materials are glass and metal. Concepts such as tower and reflexion are explored. Review the 4 proposals for the same competition.

A voiceless monument against anti-monument. The Library of Alexandria is today a silent monolith in which pure form represents the abstraction of an idea. From the Dawn of Man, the Menhir is the synthesis. The third-millennium library finds its natural landing in London. The Space Odyssey is completed. The reading exercise needs an intimate space like each intimate practice of man. Its digital side doesn’t. The act of reading is in direct contact with the ground, and the archetype of the thòlos suggest this choice. The digital world, instead, is ubiquitous and radically connected to an ethereal space. The Menhir is a storage where each public function finds its life’s space. Its skin is the screen of the world. The Menhir is the answer which comes before the question.

1393-VST-LON.GB-2015 — Posted in 2016 — Explore more projects on education and library — Climate: oceanic / maritime and temperate — Coordinates: 51.503905, -0.078996 — Views: 3.687