The project's area has a large number of colleges, institutions, including students, young families and other diversified people. The designer wanted this place to be an urban cultural space where the culture of books and community life are integrated together, dedicated to exploring more possibilities between home, college and work, to meet the needs of a diverse range of groups for cultural knowledge, reasonably planning the layout of space to create an open, artistic and fluid cultural space.
The original design was for a space with a floor height of 8 meters, and in order to create more practical functions, the designer adjusted the first floor into two floors, utilizing the loft approach, with two floors above and below and a complex space structure, emphasizing the openness of the space, with the lower floor as a coffee and bar area, a creative display area and a book display area, and the upper floor as a self-study space. Simultaneously, the original architectural style was retained, such as the traces of exposed wall tiles, beams, exposed pipes, etc. Metal elements can be easily seen elsewhere, and the hard industrial atmosphere is integrated with the warm atmosphere of books.
The vertical lines, the collision of refinement and roughness, giving a sense of rationality, rhythm. Materials with a modern industrial sense, rough texture, and mottled texture effect show a visual effect of old and very fashionable and bold, and the concrete floor with a calm luster looks apathetic but has a very modern sense. The roof was painted in black, with the original plumbing pipes lined up beneath it, and a mysterious sense of metallic light occasionally flashed out under the light.
The designer has created a quiet book space by weaving and transforming iron, concrete, and black and white. The natural wood contrasted with the cultural elegance, and this collision gave the impression that the bookstore is still a warm humanistic country in the industrial civilization.
IAI Interior Silver Award
Winners：Zhang Chengzhe
China
