Stockholm City Library

Abstract

Die Entwurfsidee einer neuen Stadtbibliothek in Stockholm besteht darin einen dynamischen Gegenpol zur bestehenden neoklassizistischen Asplund Bibliothek zu schaffen

The new library should serve as an architectural dynamic counterpole to the simple and austere old library built in the neoclassizistic style in 1928 and to its surrounding buildings of the site area. The new library originates within the source of the Observatory Hill and develops across. Based on the hugeness and monumentality of the stone a sculpture grows out of the hill to get loose of it in order to be finally split like a granite into a massive monolith and a translucent solitair. This idea is realized as the source of the Observatory Hill and is reflected in the chosen material:<br />The monolith =granite = massive; Solitaire = ease, dynamic and to get away from the source.