Stockholm City Library

A common space of the City

Master thesis (2024)

Authors

E. Sideri Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

D.J. Rosbottom Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
M.W. Klooster Teachers of Practice / A - Architecture and the Built Environment (graduation committee member)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
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Published Date

27-06-2024

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

96 years after Eric Gunnar Asplund designed Stockholm City Library, this narrative portrays the evolution of the Library as a whole, as an essential institution of the local society, and as one of Asplund’s oeuvres. By embracing the surroundings, as Asplund did, and revealing the hidden processes of this public institution, the building will enter a new era that will help it evolve throughout the years and encourage people to engage with the city and its components.
Practically unfolding the guidelines mentioned above meant exploring the scale and the materiality of the interventions suggested.

The transformation of the Stockholm City Library into a common space would not happen through a massive expansion but through acupuncture and highly contextual interventions. Their scale and materiality were explored together in an attempt to engage the library, the city and the landscape.