Grandola Library Proposal / ER Studio

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The building of a Municipal Library and Archives Grândola by ER Studio aims to be a undying reference, an idol that represents not usually a past and benefaction of a city of Grândola, though also their destiny ambitions. Their thought of a Monolith reminds us of a past buildings that have withstood a time, a library and an repository are zero some-more than a vast repository of believe that creates a overpass between past and present. More images and architects’ outline after a break.

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Time is a biggest exam of a architecture. It highlights what is good and therefore eventually dictates a disappearance of what is bad. The anxiety buildings that currently strech us are robust, eminent and plain that has withstood a exam of time and, now, not usually can tell us most of a story as a people and enlightenment though also assumes them self as a symbol or references within a communities where they operate.

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The Water Tank

Making a building anxiety is a routine involving hunt and sensitivity. Place an intent mischaracterized and design to perform a duty of anxiety competence be a disaster if we do not act in courtesy for a context where it belongs. The landscape offers a initial demeanour during a gracefulness of a H2O reservoir, a anxiety for those who live there and for those visiting Grândola. As a outcome of climatic conditions became compulsory to store a changed item for a population. We take this judgment in a growth of Library and Archives since, in essence, they are zero some-more than a fountainhead of believe and knowing.

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The alloy between a thought of Monolith and a Reservoir, translates into a plain element, compact, that takes a nobleness with sobriety, and relates directly to a race since it rises over a cross-structure, permitting a occasional glance of a race inside, but totally divulgence what goes on their content, arousing oddity and enterprise to enter.

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Transparency Interior/Exterior

The offer is grown exclusively on a given lot to a deployment of a building, in a module divided into 3 floors: a subterraneous building (designed for automobile parking and technical areas), belligerent building (public module and placement of a building) and a initial building (public program, storage areas and executive / technical). In sequence to solve a whole module in all 3 floors, it became compulsory to emanate dual center floors between a belligerent building and initial floor, were it was placed tangible space of a library (Children and Adults) and all inner program, for a disdainful use of employees. With this solution, a building does not surpass a share compulsory by a constrictive authority, and achieved by a use of quotas involving work as a whole.

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The categorical opening is carried out by a side of Republic Square, holding advantage of a scale and a open inlet to offer as a gateway. The upsurge opening from a walking travel Dr. Jose Pereira Barradas is also routed to a opening area by a ramp that invites those who cranky a travel to learn a building. The Atrium share a same turn as a retard in front of it, causing entering a building an healthy act of one who circulates in this same square. While by a extraneous a building resembles a vast retard of stone, inside of it we are impressed by a good light from a sky, extended by a double tallness that accept us. This good light creates us feel that we are entering a special place, opposite from a existence outside.

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The act of entering a reading spaces contingency be insincere as a special moment. Thus, pointed dual ramps respectively couple libraries of both adults and children to a lobby, creation your tour a healthy routine of movement, always accompanied by a executive courtyard. The transition outcome is so achieved, as a sealing of particular rooms.

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Light as Material

The lighting of interior spaces became partial of a judgment for a growth of a whole project. If a building’s extraneous takes on a volumetric plain as a vast retard of stone, a interior spaces should be far-reaching and with a good healthy lighting, so avoiding vast appetite costs with synthetic lighting. This counterbalance between extraneous / interior stimulates clever feelings as we will finding a inside of a library.

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Both reading spaces have good healthy lighting from a outward square and a categorical masquerade bays, permitting a clarity between inside / outside. Therefore permitting a tranquil peeking of a building’s interior by a exterior, as good as permitting an alertness of how a library spaces work.