A compact library run by the community
BookMark - Result Story
Digital utopia has resulted in a drastic decline in reading culture, as a result, public libraries are at a critical juncture. Due to excessive use of the internet and digital devices, the number of readers is drastically declining in public libraries. It's not just reading culture that is at stake, as the readers play a more active and involved role in the community, the decline in the reading population parallels with a greater retreat from participation in civic, cultural, and social life.
The challenge here was to build a compact module of a new age library, where its primary goal is to not only to hold information but rather to connect over information.
The jury for the competition consisted of esteemed designers, professionals and academicians from around the world. The Lead Jurors for the competitions were as follows:
Filippo Gabbiani, Principal Architect & Co-Founder, KOKAISTUDIOS, Shanghai
Eduardo Aizenman, Founder and project director, Aizenman-Arquitectura, Cafebrería El Péndulo, Mexico
Sergio Sánchez Grande, Founder / Principal Architect, MINIMO, Spain
Some of the Best of competition projects are:
Winning Project: Liboratory
By: Corentin Favreau
Description: Laboratory is equipment designed to catalyze and federate interactions between its users. A flexible structure capable of accommodating programmatic boxes housing the programmatic components. The library of tomorrow must be able to adapt to the changing needs of residents and cities. Thus, the Laboratory presents itself as a toolbox for the cities.
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Runner - Up: The path
By: Elizaveta Kumykova
Description: Book of life.
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People’s Choice: Compact library run by the community
By: Taisiia Lukiia Sakhuriia
Description: A modern library has to be more than information storage, but a new place of unity and development for the community.
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Editor’s Choice: +bookHub
By: ELİF TURGUT
Description: +bookHub's design envisions a dynamic spatial concept formed with modular and modifiable parts to create a versatile space for social engagement, equipped with all basic needs of a social setting. BookHub incorporates reading and socializing into one area with collapsible study spaces, workshops, and outdoor settings ideal for concerts, symposiums, or pop-ups.
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Editor’s Choice: "Opendoor" Library
By: Shaghik Melikian Mehr
Description: A library of your own.
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Editor’s Choice: OUTSIDE
By: Felip Amorim & Pamela Cipriani
Description: A proposal whose aim is to encourage exchanges between people and the city, developing not only the habit of reading but also a healthy and community environment of social relevance.
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Editor’s Choice: Human Library
By: Michela Nota, Aristide Troletti & Alberto Gaffurini
Description: People have been gathering around the fire for thousands of years to listen and tell stories. This kind of social exchange has been the main delight for generations of human beings. Stories are what libraries are about, but why limit them to written words in a book? Why don’t we use all our senses to experience stories?
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Editor’s Choice: TReading
By: Yuxiang Qi & Yang Yang
Description: With the proliferation of social media, the traditional library is bound to reconstruct. We analog future library as a tree. Social behaviors along with social media correspond to the trunk and branches while reading as the canopy. The three parts have their own identity while they interact with each other. Social behaviors trigger new types of libraries.
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Editor’s Choice: THE BOOK YARD
By: Alankritha Khoshekay, Manish Anand, Ayeshah Mohammed & Sibghat Khan
Description: An evolutionary library built with minimum resources which also doubles as a community space.
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