A Library for Exchange
Stockholm City Library for the 21st Century
R. Westerbeek (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
E. Karanastasi – Mentor (TU Delft - Teachers of Practice / AE+T)
S. Pietsch – Mentor (TU Delft - Situated Architecture)
S.S. Mandias – Mentor (TU Delft - Situated Architecture)
S. De Vocht – Mentor (TU Delft - Situated Architecture)
M Pimlott – Mentor (TU Delft - Situated Architecture)
Daniel Rosbottom – Mentor (TU Delft - Situated Architecture)
Diego Andres Sepulveda – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Spatial Planning and Strategy)
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Abstract
The protagonist of this year’s graduation studio is the Stockholm City Library. It was deesigned by famous Scandinavian architect Erik Gunnar Asplund (1885-1940) and opened in the spring of 1928. It is a modernist building located in Vasastaden, a very diverse neighbourhood on the Northern Island of Sweden’s capital Stockholm.
The graduation studio, organised by the group Interiors Buildings Cities, started on the premise of two failed competitions that were written out for the Stockholm City library. The project aims to reintegrate the Library into the urban fabric and the city life of Stockholm. It does this by bringing the Bazaar into the building, creating a public, inviting route on the level of Svaevägen Street, and connecting this central city axis to a lowered square that finishes the route throughout the building. While following this public route, the visitor can go up to more focused areas within the library and discover its beautifully kept reading room and Rotunda centrepiece.
The aim is to create a library that not only allows for the individual consumption of knowledge but also facilitates the exchange of knowledge between the inhabitants and visitors of Stockholm.