A Library for Exchange

Stockholm City Library for the 21st Century

Master thesis (2024)

Authors

R. Westerbeek Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

E. Karanastasi Teachers of Practice / AE+T - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
S. Pietsch Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
S.S. Mandias Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
S. De Vocht Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
Mark Pimlott Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
D.J. Rosbottom Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
D.A. Sepulveda Carmona Spatial Planning and Strategy - Architecture and the Built Environment (graduation committee member)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
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Published Date

25-06-2024

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

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.