The Common Public: Stadsbibliotek in The City of Stockholm

Master thesis (2024)

Authors

K. Urban Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

Mark Pimlott Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
L. Cipriani Landscape Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (graduation committee member)
J.S. Zeinstra Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
M. Parravicini Architectural Technology - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
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Published Date

26-06-2024

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

The Graduation Project is facing the challenge of extension to the historical building of Stockholm City Library. Its main goal was to provide an architectural answer to the political, economic and cultural problems which the institution of public libraries in Stockholm is facing nowadays.

My proposal refers back to the original plan for the site proposed by Erik Gunnar Asplund in 1928 and completing it with the 4th building. Thanks to that I managed to densify and fill the already-used part of the plot with subsequent educational functions. The building is connected to the main library underground which allows to preservation of its monumentality and independent character in the city. In the proposed extension I focus on the functions which can not be placed in the historical building due to its spatial limitation. The new building is a contemporary library incorporating a variety of interactions and ways of sharing knowledge. The structural layout allows for a flexible adaptation and at the same time provides different spatial qualities.